On 05/04/2013 16:25, Marcin Krol wrote:
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> Hello,
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>> Shudder. This and similar questions, eg how to automatically add
>> disclaimers, come up at infrequent intervals.
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>> It isn't exim's job to do this. Exim is an MTA. Exim's job is
>> deliver all the (crap) email in all its glory and help convince
>> the humanoid reading the email that evolution has started going
>> backwards :-)
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> Erm, no. Exim's job, as MTA, is to do whatever is needed to do with the
> message. Exim does not dictate users' needs and various aspects of good
> message handling. Users' needs and various aspects such as usability,
> utility, security, etc. dictate what MTA should do.
Exim's job as a Mail Transfer Agent is to transfer mail. The same
applies to every other MTA. It's what they're for.
If you want a Mail Editing Agent, then these are available. Some of them
may even be available as an external filter through which an MTA, such
as exim, can pass mail.
Mark
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