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Date:      Fri, 4 Jul 2003 17:06:45 -0400
From:      David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header
Message-ID:  <20030704210645.GA20124@skytrackercanada.com>
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> Actually, I use procmail as the default delivery agent myself --- that
> example came from /etc/mail/freebsd.cf --- but even so, the
> Return-Path: stuff is inserted correctly.  How are you checking for
> the presence or absence of the header?  Most mail applications will
> weed it out of what they display to you -- bouncing on the 'h' key in
> mutt shows it, generally as the 2nd line of header right underneath
> the 'From ' line.  Otherwise, grep'ing the mbox file directly is
> probably the thing to do.

There's no mistaking it. I've used vi and grep.
Here, is the message as I received it from you;


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Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 21:38:35 +0100
From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To: David Banning <david@skytracker.ca>
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: getting sendmail to add Return-Path: header
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:28:48PM -0400, David Banning wrote:
> > Return-Path: is meant to be inserted into the message headers by the
> > sendmail that does final delivery -- it's not something you should set
> > on all of the e-mail you send out.  The machinery to handle all this

and so on...



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