On 28 Feb, Steve Huntsberry wrote:
| It sounds like I should use the last Received: fields instead of Date:
| to regenerate the From_ header. Date: is date sent and could be wrong.
|
| How do I do this in formail? Can I grab the date in the Received: field
| and create a new From_ field? They seem to have different date formats.
|
| >
| > From shuntsbe(_at_)mail-pop Tue Feb 18 18:16:28 2003 -0800
| > Return-Path: <owner-javascript(_at_)adobe(_dot_)com>
| > Received: from cliff.corp.adobe.com ([153.32.1.186]) by
| > mailsj-v1.corp.adobe.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15 v1 Jul
| > 11 2001 16:32:57) with ESMTP id H9YSQT00.2UV; Fri, 7 Feb 2003
| > 16:44:53 -0800
| > Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 16:45:00 -0800
| > From: Mark Erickson <mark(_dot_)erickson(_at_)adobe(_dot_)com>
| >
|
| These mails occur when I copy from one IMAP server to another.
| It sets the From to my address, at the time I make the copy.
|
| Therefore, I also need to change the address in the From_.
| For example, here I want a From_ field that looks like:
|
| > From mark(_dot_)erickson(_at_)adobe(_dot_)com Fri Feb 7 16:44:53 2003 -0800
|
| I might want the Sender: and not From: if Sender: is present.
|
| Is any of this possible in formail or must I write some Perl?
|
You've added some needs since your original message. There is an
example rcfile and suggested usage and testing for the first request at:
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2003-02/msg00544.html
It does not deal with the two requirements mentioned here. Those
should be relatively easy to add. In that rcfile, before the first
recipe that matches Return-Path, add a similar recipe that does the same
with Sender:, and another that tests for From: if Sender: doesn't exist.
I suppose you can then get rid of the Return-Path: recipe or make it
contingent on these two new ones failing. Whichever of those addresses
exists replaces $RETURNPATH where it's added to the variable $ENVELOPE.
Because the Return-Path: contains a simple <user(_at_)domain(_dot_)tld> and the
From: header likely contains more than that, you'll have to take some
additional care to extract just that part from the From: header. The
same may apply to Sender:.
BTW, I just noticed a typo in the message referred to above. There is
an extra :0 which should be obvious, and should be removed.
--
Email address in From: header is valid * but only for a couple of days *
This is my reluctant response to spammers' unrelenting address harvesting
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