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 Message-ID: <20030704203835.GA8041@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030704202848.GA19205@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030704151957.GA14457@skytrackercanada.com> <20030704190458.GD69059@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030704202848.GA19205@skytrackercanada.com>
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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
> > should already be in your sendmail.cf -- if there's a line:
> >=20
> > H?P?Return-Path: <$g>
> >=20
> > in the 'Format of Headers' section, then any delivery mailer with 'P'
> > in the F=3D flags (which is the default for the local and prog mailers)
> > will insert the Return-Path: header -- eg.
> >=20
> > Mlocal, P=3D/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=3DlsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfm=
nz9, S=3DEnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL, R=3DEnvToL/HdrToL,
> > ^^^^
>=20
> OK. I've got the same entries as you, but I am not getting the=20
> Return-Path: put in the header. Now I am reading my mail -on- the server.
> Since it is mail.local or in my case procmail that reads it, it -should-
> put it in before depositing it in /var/mail for pickup, shouldn't it?
>=20
> I have tried compiling with the procmail option out, like yours and it
> makes no difference.
>=20
> My sendmail.cf shows;
>=20
> Mlocal, P=3D/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=3DlsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=
=3DEnvFromL/Hdr
> FromL, R=3DEnvToL/HdrToL,
> T=3DDNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
> A=3Dprocmail -Y -a $h -d $u
> Mprog, P=3D/bin/sh, F=3DlsDFMoqeu9, S=3DEnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=3DE=
nvToL/HdrToL, D
> =3D$z:/,
> T=3DX-Unix/X-Unix/X-Unix,
> A=3Dsh -c $u
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.
Cheers,
Matthew
--=20
Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks
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