Jeff Orrok <jeff(_at_)rt(_dot_)com> claimed:
Since you are using the -r option, I want to make sure you saw these
bits from the man pages:
-r Generate an auto-reply header. This will normally
throw away all the existing fields (except X-Loop:)
in the original message, fields you wish to preserve
need to be named using the -i option. If you use
this option in conjunction with -k, you can prevent
the body from being `escaped' by also specifying -b.
I did see this bit. What I didn't see was a simple sentence declaring
that -x/X-ing fields will nullify -i/I/a/A'ed fields that aren't also
-x/X'ed. The universe is much closer to heat death than it need be due
to that missing sentence.
WARNINGS
You can save yourself and others a lot of grief if you try
to avoid using this autoreply feature on mails coming
through mailinglists. Depending on the format of the in
coming mail (which in turn depends on both the original
sender's mail agent and the mailinglist setup) formail
could decide to generate an autoreply header that replies
to the list.
Why did you include this part? Have I been bouncing digests or posts
back to the list? Or are you still unhappy about having to deal with my
autoresponder because you CC'ed me? As I said before, once my
autoresponder stops barfing into my .maillog, I'll contemplate a recipe
that deals with CC's to me and mailing lists. If you have a proposal,
please share it.
Moreover, the examples given are more verbose than many Unix man
pages I've seen. I'll grant that some experimentation is in order.
Yes, many man pages are remiss when it comes to examples, but most of
formail's examples resemble "Click Submit to submit your form".
It's a rare Unix program where that isn't the case, though, eh?
Indeed!
Jeff
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