Re: extracting addresses from forward files

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Szerző: Philip Hazel
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Címzett: Michelle Dick
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Tárgy: Re: extracting addresses from forward files
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Michelle Dick wrote:

> Smartlist distribution files look like this:
>
> artemis@???
> (Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed)
> artemis@???
> mrd@???
>
> That "(Only addresses ..." line is screwing things up for exim. It
> never seemed to bother sendmail.


Hmm. I thought I fixed it to ignore what is essentially an empty
address, specifically to handle this case.

> extracted: artemis@???
> extracted: (Only addresses below this line can be automatically removed)
> smartlist_dist_aliases director generated artemis@???
> smartlist_dist_aliases director succeeded for testing
> transport: <none>


Clearly I have screwed up. I will investigate what's gone wrong. There
are several things that have been reported recently. Looks like I'll be
issuing some patches soon...

> p.s. exim -f should reset the From line even if there already is one.
> :-) I changed my smartlist to remove the From line, but sendmail
> behavior is to just replace the From line.


At the moment, From_ overrides -f rather than the other way round. I
think this is probably accidental, since -f is processed before From_.
If sendmail does it the other way round, then I guess Exim should follow
suit. That could be defined to be a bug too.

Philip

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