On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ray Gardener wrote:
> Is it possible to rewrite the comment and phrase elements of headers
> fields using Exim?
Check out the 'w' rewriting flag (section 32.7 of the 3.12 manual), but
it doesn't actually allow you to do what I think you want to.
> An example of a current header is
>
> from: r.a.gardener@??? (Ray Gardener)
>
> which we want rewriting to either
>
> From: <r.a.gardener@???> "Ray Gardener"
That is not syntactically valid.
> or
>
> From: <Ray Gardener> r.a.gardener@???
Neither is that.
I suggest you read RFC 822 carefully, because there are MTAs out there
(Exim is one) which can be configured to check the syntax of headers,
and reject non-conforming messages. You will cause a lot of grief to
your users if you rewrite to a syntactically invalid form.
--
Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
