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Circa 2001-Dec-16 02:06:57 -0500 dixit Greg A. Woods:
: [ On Saturday, December 15, 2001 at 08:40:47 (-0800), Marc MERLIN wrote: ]
: > 3) Of course, it's also why programs like formail, when they
: > generate an answer, answer to the envelope sender by default
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: Formail? What's that? Surely you don't mean formmail, that most ugly
: perl CGI script too many people use..... obviously not as it doesn't
: have an "envelope sender".
Marc probably means the 'formail' command that accompanies procmail:
DESCRIPTION
formail is a filter that can be used to force mail into
mailbox format, perform `From ' escaping, generate auto-
replying headers, do simple header munging/extracting or
split up a mailbox/digest/articles file. The mail/mail
box/article contents will be expected on stdin.
This is what i find amusing about formail:
If formail is supposed to determine the sender of the
mail, but is unable to find any, it will substitute
`foo@bar'.
Combine that with:
NOTES
[...]
By default, when generating an auto-reply header procmail
selects the envelope sender from the input message. This
is correct for vacation messages and other automatic
replies regarding the routing or delivery of the original
message. If the sender is expecting a reply or the reply
is being generated in response to the contents of the
original message then the -t option should be used.
Wonder how many times formail sends autoresponses to
<foo@???>....
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