Re: [EXIM] Again address rewriting

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Torsten Curdt
CC: Exim-Mailinglist
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Again address rewriting
On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Torsten Curdt wrote:

> What about using an exim transport filter to add
> another field to the header so we have something like...
>
> To: x@???
> From: y@???
> Subject: subject
> Reply-To: y@???
> -- now we add --
> New-Reply-To: y@???
> -- or something like --
> New-From: y@???
>
> I have no idea what the RFC rules say about something like
> that... And the exact header field names...


You can add any header you like, as long as its name starts with X- but
how will you persuade any software at the other end to recognize it?

> Or is there a way of directly changing the From- and
> Reply-To fields from a transport filter?


A transport filter has to read and write the entire message. It can
change anything it likes.

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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