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Re: procmail / formail - changing the From address?

2010-11-15 19:10:35
Have you tried setting the Reply-To: address or Errors-To: address?

It is my understanding that the Return-Path: header is not supposed to be (can't be?) set by you but rather by the final delivering server. It'll get that information from SMTP commands rather than header information.

I had this problem a number of years ago but had to abandon trying to make it work because of an intervening Exchange system that kept disallowing my various work-arounds. In any event, a procmail-only solution wasn't feasible. It looks like you have better control of the pathways so you might be able to have better luck. Have a look at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt and see if that helps you. I has been too long since I played in this sandbox to give you more precise information.

Rich

On 11/15/10 7:35 PM, Nigel Allen wrote:
A little update.

Having dug a little deeper into this, it appears that the problem is not
the "From" header but the "Return-Path" which is getting set to the
machine name.

Here are the headers from one of the offending emails. The return-path
should be the same as the "From" header.


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