Re: [Exim] Unqualified Mail-Followup-To

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:24:55PM +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (85) 15-Mar-99 M ability to rewrite addresses in non-standard headers
>
> Such as "return-receipt-to".
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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...

Thanks for your reaction! I now understand _why_ exim does this... I
will certainly look forward to the fix.

David