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Re: Breaking mailutils to pieces
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Harald Meland |
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Re: Breaking mailutils to pieces |
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27 May 2001 20:10:17 +0200 |
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[Sam Roberts]
> 6- Find a way to store "envelope to" in a mailbox.
>
> Envelope from is in the mbox format, I don't know about the
> other mailbox types, but if anybody knows what the common ways
> that MDA's put this info in, when they do, maybe we could use
> that. I'm thinking of an X-Envelope-[From|To] field, that
> the evelope_t would understand.
Exim (optionally) adds an "Envelope-to:" header to mails at delivery
time, containing the envelope to address that resulted in that mail
delivery.
> Also, does it remove the BCC lines? I guess that sendmail does
> when used as the messeage injection interface (i.e. if you
> send a message to it's stdin, it will make sure the message has
> a message ID, a date, stip the bcc and add those addresses to the
> envelope to, etc). I'm not so sure that when you talk to an MTA
> using smtp that it will do this.
MTA dependant; Exim will *not* strip Bcc: headers when receiving mail
via SMTP (and I believe that is fully RFC compliant).
--
Harald
Re: Breaking mailutils to pieces, Sam Roberts, 2001/05/26