Re: [Exim] Unqualified Mail-Followup-To

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: David Fokkema
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Unqualified Mail-Followup-To
On Wed, 28 May 2003, David Fokkema wrote:

> I'd rather have my MTA handle _all_ unqualified addresses. Because exim
> does such a good job of this, I don't have to tell all users to fix
> their mutt config with things like set from = "dfokkema@???". The
> only problem is that exim ignores the Mail-Followup-To header.


That's because it isn't a header line that is defined by the RFC 2822
standard. There is an item on the Exim 4 Wish List which is in fact an
item that is retained from the Exim 3 Wish List:

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(85) 15-Mar-99 M ability to rewrite addresses in non-standard headers

Such as "return-receipt-to".
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Somehow there has always been something more important to do. :-(
For over 4 years, it seems.

The only way to handle this would be for some configuration option to
provide a list of header lines that are deemed to contains lists of
addresses. But there are other more general header-rewriting issues as
well that should probably all be considered together.

You'll just have to hope that I eventually I get round to this...

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