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Re: Formail - problem with -I From:

2020-05-13 06:48:15
I am struggling a bit with terminology here.  There is the "regular" RFC822 email From: header.  I will call that From-header.  Then there is the mbox start-of-message From line.  I will call that From-mbox.

If I use formail to change various email headers other than the From-Header, formail creates a From-mbox line that shows the sender as what is in the existing From-Header.

If I user formail to -I replace the From-Header, formail creates a From-mbox line where the sender is foo@bar.

Strange behavior.  Now I have not tested all possible combinations of formail options, but -I From: ... causes this odd behavior.

I has become a mute point, as when I pipe the output of formail into procmail -d .... , procmail 'fixes' the From-mbox line.

But formail should not be getting it wrong in the first place to need procmail to correct it.

On 5/13/20 2:16 AM, Ruud H.G. van Tol wrote:

That initial "From " line (or is it " From "?)
is not part of the email-header,
but is rather a 'system solution'
to represent part of the envelope details.

-- Ruud

On 2020-05-12 22:52, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
When I use a -I From: to replace my From: line, formail is putting foo@bar in the first line From.
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