Re: [Exim] From header problem with switch to Maildir

Jeff Hodge wrote:

> We recently switched from mbox to Maildir format (courier-imap).
> Everything is working well except some email clients are reading the
> incorrect From line in the message header:
>
>>From jhodge@??? Fri Dec 05 12:45:29 2003
>
> Instead of:
> From: Jeff Hodge <jhodge@???>
>
> When a user tries to reply their email client then uses
> jhodge@??? Fri Dec 05 12:45:29 2003 as the full email address.
>
> This was not a problem when we were using uw-imap with mbox format. We
> are using exim 3.36. Here is the local_delivery transport we are using:
>
> local_delivery:
> driver = appendfile
> directory = /home/$local_part/Maildir/
> delivery_date_add
> envelope_to_add
> return_path_add
> maildir_format
>
> Is the driver the problem? Any help would be appreciated.

Solved my own problem by adding prefix = X-From under local_delivery.