>> neither. it is a suggestion for a doc change where the docs tell how to
>> use with procmail.
>> i presume folk do not want
>> From ph10@??? Tue Sep 14 02:08:24 1999
>> >From randy ...
>> in their mailboxes (or s/randy/nobody/). the change i describe above
>> accomplishes that.
> Ah, sorry. I was getting confused thinking about from_hack. What you are
> suggesting is adding return_path_add, I take it, and I presume that
> procmail then doesn't put in that From line? Is that right?
nope. procmail will put it in if the gid/uid in not in the magic set. my
change to
user = "${local_part}"
group = mail
set the uid/gid so that procmail does not add the extra ">From" line. this
was strictly a suggested change to the recommended procmail recipe in the
exim docs.
> Though I am not a procmail user, I seem to recall that this may have
> something to do with the users that procmail trusts.
precisely.
randy