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Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing
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Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Aug 2014 12:40:53 +0100 |
Hi Ken,
Paul wrote:
> Ken wrote:
> > > And it continues to this day.
> > >
> > > $ readlink -e `which mail`
> > > /usr/bin/heirloom-mailx
> > > $ mail ralph <$N
> > > No message, no subject; hope that's ok
> > > $ fgrep From: /var/spool/mail/ralph
> > > From: address@hidden (Ralph Corderoy)
> >
> > That looks like you set that directly with the "from" variable.
Nope.
> does mailx/mail even add a From: header?
You're right. I checked here and heirloom-mailx does a `sendmail -i'
and leaves that to add a `From:'.
> the current postfix sendmail program uses the (Full Name) format. it
> fills in the (...) with the name given with -F, or with the contents
> of $NAME, or with the fullname from /etc/passwd.
Yep, and I followed that path too. :-)
http://sources.debian.net/src/postfix/2.11.1-1/src/cleanup/cleanup_message.c?hl=686:692#L676
And I use Postfix.
> which doesn't mean it's "common". but if postfix does it, it may mean
> that it's traditional sendmail behavior, and therefore inescapable.
I had a quick look at Exim, and I think it uses <>.
http://sources.debian.net/src/exim4/4.84%7ERC1-3/src/receive.c?hl=2126:2127#L2105
and various other places. Postfix is very common though.
Cheers, Ralph.
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ken Hornstein, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ken Hornstein, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Lyndon Nerenberg, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ken Hornstein, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Robert Elz, 2014/08/03
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Paul Fox, 2014/08/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ken Hornstein, 2014/08/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing,
Ralph Corderoy <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, bergman, 2014/08/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Ralph Corderoy, 2014/08/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Jon Fairbairn, 2014/08/04
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, Mike O'Dell, 2014/08/04
Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing, David Levine, 2014/08/03