Re: [Nmh-workers] Bcc query...

[David Levine]

heymanj writes:

> I know all are giddy about the release of nmh 1.2 (will be compiling
> it this weekend), but I am curious as to how to resolve the following
> situation:
>
> On my office workstation, I use a different logon id than my email
> address (as given to me by the corporation I work for).  I have solved
> that by adding
>
> From: address@hidden
> Reply-To: address@hidden
>
> to every one of the various *comp* files in ~/Mail/
> I've also added
>
> masquerade: draft_from
>
> to /etc/nmh/mts.conf
>
> The problem seems to occur with Bcc in that I get the following:
>
> From: "<address@hidden>" <address@hidden>
> To: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Subject: $10 Linux answering machine
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:33:40 -0500
>
> ------- Blind-Carbon-Copy
>
> To:
> From: address@hidden
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> Subject: $10 Linux answering machine
> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:33:40 -0500
>
>
> The problem is that if someone replies having received the message
> on the Bcc, it gets sent to a non-deliverable email address.

Yup.  I've tripped over that myself recently.  I don't know
the motivation for the current behavior, and can't think of a
good reason for it.  My guess is that not many people use
draft_from so it hasn't been noticed.

> Is this a MTA issue (not MUA)?
> Am I missing something to configure?  Is this standard for the
> appropriate RFCs?  Can nmh honor the From:/Reply-To: on a Bcc??

It's an nmh issue, and I don't see a way to configure around
it.  Dcc: doesn't behave this way, but I want to use Bcc:.

nmh would honor From: on a Bcc with the patch below to
post.c and spost.c.

It wouldn't be as simple to propagate Reply-To: through,
but I don't think it's as important.  Especially because
you're setting From: and Reply-To: to the same value.

Could this patch be considered for the upcoming release,
please?

Thanks,
David


> Thanks!
>
> jerry
>
> Proud MH/nmh since 1987
>
>        //  Jerry Heyman      | "Software is the difference between
>       //   Amiga Forever :-) |  hardware and reality"
>   \\ //    address@hidden   |
>    \X/


Index: uip/post.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/nmh/nmh/uip/post.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 post.c
--- uip/post.c  6 Jan 2006 21:51:44 -0000       1.15
+++ uip/post.c  7 Jan 2006 19:10:43 -0000
@@ -1210,7 +1210,18 @@
     if (msgid)
        fprintf (out, "Message-ID: <address@hidden>\n",
                (int) getpid (), (long) tclock, LocalName ());
-    fprintf (out, "From: %s\n", signature);
+    if (msgflags & MFRM) {
+      /* There was already a From: in the draft.  Don't add one. */
+      if (!draft_from_masquerading)
+        /* mts.conf didn't contain "masquerade:[...]draft_from[...]"
+           so we'll reveal the user's actual address@hidden
+           address in a Sender: header (and use it as the envelope
+           From: later). */
+        fprintf (out, "Sender: %s\n", from);
+    }
+    else
+      /* Construct a From: header. */
+      fprintf (out, "From: %s\n", signature);
     if (subject)
        fprintf (out, "Subject: %s", subject);
     fprintf (out, "BCC:\n");
Index: uip/spost.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/nmh/nmh/uip/spost.c,v
retrieving revision 1.15
diff -u -r1.15 spost.c
--- uip/spost.c 6 Jan 2006 21:51:44 -0000       1.15
+++ uip/spost.c 7 Jan 2006 19:10:43 -0000
@@ -763,7 +763,18 @@
     chmod (bccfil, 0600);
 
     fprintf (out, "Date: %s\n", dtimenow (0));
-    fprintf (out, "From: %s\n", signature);
+    if (msgflags & MFRM) {
+      /* There was already a From: in the draft.  Don't add one. */
+      if (!draft_from_masquerading)
+        /* mts.conf didn't contain "masquerade:[...]draft_from[...]"
+           so we'll reveal the user's actual address@hidden
+           address in a Sender: header (and use it as the envelope
+           From: later). */
+        fprintf (out, "Sender: %s\n", from);
+    }
+    else
+      /* Construct a From: header. */
+      fprintf (out, "From: %s\n", signature);
     if (subject)
        fprintf (out, "Subject: %s", subject);
     fprintf (out, "BCC:\n\n------- Blind-Carbon-Copy\n\n");