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Re: turning recipes on and off

2002-08-27 05:37:01
On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, David W. Tamkin wrote:

Udi explained,

| O.K. I see my problem, but, I do not understand why, because I
| learn from the sendmail book (O'Reilly) that the format of the
| From_ line is "From $g $d" while  $d  is set when  $a  is set
| (part 31.10.10).  And (part 31.10.2): "The $a macro holds the
| origin date of the a mail message (the date and time that the
| original message was sent). ...".  My conclusion was that From_
| gives the sender date.  By exploration my INBOX I see that you
| right, the date is local - hmmm, confusion!

That book is obviously wrong about that.  From_ is added upon delivery to an
mbox or by procmail's -f option, and for the very reasons we discussed before,
the delivering system cannot reliably know the time and date of the original
dispatch.

        Well, I not think that Bryan Costales & Eric Allman(!) made
        an error like this but, I'll not surpris if I had misunderstud..
        However, I adopted the  -f-  flag.

Bye,
 Udi

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