Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:29:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: tom@uniserve.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vacation program utterly stupid; does not understand RFC822 Message-ID: <199809042229.RAA15566@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980903110953.28455A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> (message from Tom on Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT)) References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980903110953.28455A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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>> If it's not a UNIX mailbox delivery (i.e., there is no "From "), it >> ignores the header "From: ". > "From " contains the envelope sender, and "From:" contains the header > sender. If "From " does not exist, you probably want to check for a > "Return-Path:" header which should contain a copy of the envelope sender. Either the RFC or a good FYI ID has some good suggestions on this. (I don't remember which.) Best, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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