On 5/13/20 2:36 PM, John Levine wrote:
In article <9049a7aa-73be-bb47-de4c-5e1a4d9768c0(_at_)htt-consult(_dot_)com>
you write:
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.
Right, that's what it does. Or you can use a -f flag to omit
the mbox From altogether
But it did not use the From: header content. I am including the message
file at the end.
If I user formail to -I replace the From-Header, formail creates a
From-mbox line where the sender is foo@bar.
That's the default if there's no valid From: in the incoming message.
There IS a From: in the original message:
From: "(Cron Daemon)" <rgm>
Now this IS the first line in the message. I am replacing this via:
-I "From: (Cron Daemon) <$USER@$HOSTNAME>"
Which gets inserted after all the remaining headers.
But formail should not be getting it wrong in the first place to need
procmail to correct it.
It's not wrong even if it's not what you expect.
Well the message HAS a From: header. Yes, I would expect formail to use
it in creating the mbox From header, and not have to resort to foo@bar.
Letting procmail generate the mbox From is a better idea anyway.
Yes. But it had me confused and delayed me, trying to get formail
creating a From mbox line, to finally give up and start on the procmail
step to see it get fixed...
From: "(Cron Daemon)" <rgm>
To: rgm
Subject: Cron <rgm@lx140e> rsync -tvz
rsync.tools.ietf.org::tools.id/*-hip-*.xml
/home/common/ietf/drafts/xml
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated
Precedence: bulk
X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_ID=270>
X-Cron-Env: <XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000>
X-Cron-Env: <DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus>
X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_TYPE=unspecified>
X-Cron-Env: <XDG_SESSION_CLASS=background>
X-Cron-Env: <LANG=en_US.UTF-8>
X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/bash>
X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin>
X-Cron-Env: <MAILTO=rgm>
X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/rgm>
X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=rgm>
X-Cron-Env: <USER=rgm>
Status: RO
Content-Length: 101
Lines: 3
sent 30 bytes received 5,001 bytes 402.48 bytes/sec
total size is 10,561,702 speedup is 2,099.32
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