From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 4 15:31:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17453 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:31:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.camalott.com (mail.camalott.com [208.203.140.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17448 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 15:31:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: from detlev.UUCP (tex-57.camalott.com [208.229.74.57]) by mail.camalott.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA07911; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:31:55 -0500 Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA15566; Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:29:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from joelh) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 17:29:57 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199809042229.RAA15566@detlev.UUCP> To: tom@uniserve.com CC: tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: (message from Tom on Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Vacation program utterly stupid; does not understand RFC822 From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.org References: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> 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