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- From: bbehlen@soda.berkeley.edu (Vitamin B (Brian Behlendorf))
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
- Subject: I need to add an "Originally-From:" header to my mailing list posts.
- Date: 7 Sep 1992 20:31:42 GMT
- Organization: U.C. Berkeley, CS Undergraduate Association
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- Apologies in advance for the newbie question, but the sendmail man
- page was not helpful about this. I run a mailing list out of this machine
- called sfraves, with about 215 users. Right now the "From:" line reads
- "sfraves-request", so that only I will have to deal with MAILER DAEMON
- problems and not the original writer of whatever gets posted to the list.
- On most machines, the name and address of the original writer does stay in
- the header, so people can tell who wrote a particular post. However, some
- mail programs seem to strip away that second "From:" line, so that every
- piece of mail seems to come from "sfraves-request", and the real writer's
- name is unknown. So, I would like to add an "Originator:" or "Originally
- From:" line to every post that goes through the sfraves alias, so that
- those people with the messed-up mail programs can still see who the original
- writer is, with bounced messages still going to sfraves-request.
-
- How would I go about doing this? It would be much preferable if it were
- simply some option to the "|/usr/lib/sendmail -odp -oi -fsfraves-request..."
- line in my /usr/lib/aliases.
-
- Thank you in advance,
- Brian
-