Re: [Exim] -t and Resent headers

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Autor: Marc MERLIN
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A: Sheldon Hearn
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] -t and Resent headers
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 09:04:03PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On (2003/09/25 11:54), Marc MERLIN wrote:
>
> > > > A message that you sent using the -t command line option contained
> > > > resent- headers. It is not clear who the recipient addresses are, so
> > > > no delivery could be attempted.
> >
> > I understand why exim says that, but
> > 1) sendmail seems to just pick Resent-To and use that
> > 2) (x)emacs' resend mail mechanism seems to use sendmail -t and feed it
> >    a message like the one above.

>
> What version of Exim are you using? The documentation (as of 4.20)
> reads:
>
> | If there are any "Resent-" header lines in the message, Exim extracts
> | recipients from all "Resent-To:", "Resent-Cc:", and "Resent-Bcc:"
> | header lines instead of from "To:", "Cc:", and "Bcc:". This is for
> | compatibility with Sendmail and other MTAs. (Prior to release 4.20,
> | Exim gave an error if -t was used in conjunction with "Resent-" header
> | lines.)


Indeed...

I'll need to upgrade that machine, it's 4.14

Thanks for finding that

Marc
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