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> In-Reply-To: <20030704203835.GA8041@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20030704151957.GA14457@skytrackercanada.com> <20030704190458.GD69059@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20030704202848.GA19205@skytrackercanada.com> <20030704203835.GA8041@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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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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