Date: Sat, 23 Sep 1995 01:37:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: rmail and brain-dead mail systems .. patch enclosed Message-ID: <199509222338.BAA15700@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199509222128.FAA15859@haywire.DIALix.COM> from "Peter Wemm" at Sep 23, 95 05:28:52 am
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As Peter Wemm wrote: > > If you drop the From_ line, how do you communicate the envelope sender > address? > > It's most definately needed... For example, when you send email to > (say) current@freebsd.org, the envelope sender is > "owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org" which happens to be aliased to > "mailman". Hmmmmmm.... j@uriah 138% perl -e 'while(<>) {\ next unless /^From /;\ ($f,$u)=split; $fr{$u}++;\ }\ \ foreach $u reverse(sort(bycount (keys %fr))) {\ print "$u: $fr{$u} times\n"\ }\ exit;\ sub bycount {$fr{$a} <=> $fr{$b}}' $mail joerg_wunsch: 34 times bde@zeta.org.au: 3 times sax-saxnet-request@sax.sax.de: 3 times uucp: 3 times syssgm@devetir.qld.gov.au: 2 times uk1@irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de: 2 times peter@freefall.freebsd.org: 2 times cutie.ka.sub.org!pmh@pilhuhn.de: 1 times ... (remaining addresses that only appear once) As you can see, there's 34 times "joerg_wunsch" in the envelope address. Pretty much useless, don't you think? And that's with the stock rmail(1), of course. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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