Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 20:04:58 +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: <20030704190458.GD69059@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030704151957.GA14457@skytrackercanada.com> References: <20030704151957.GA14457@skytrackercanada.com>
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:19:57AM -0400, David Banning wrote:
> I need to have the Return-Path: header to added to my emails.
>=20
> Any idea what is needed to configure sendmail to do that?
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:
H?P?Return-Path: <$g>
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.
Mlocal, P=3D/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=3DlsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9,=
S=3DEnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL, R=3DEnvToL/HdrToL,
^^^^
T=3DDNS/RFC822/SMTP,
A=3Dmail.local -l
These are the default settings, and it would take sufficient effort to
generate a sendmail.cf without something like those in it that you
would surely remember doing so...
See http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2821.html, section 4.4 for the chapter
and verse about the Return-Path: header.
Cheers,
Matthew
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