Debian list `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

I have a procmail recipe to catch the Debian mailing list traffic :

:0
* ^From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org
debian

It fails on mail from a few users, for which the `From' line is not
the Debian mailing list:

  "Rev. Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@earthlink.net>
  Nils Rennebarth <nils@ipe.uni-stuttgart.de>
  Norbert Veber <nveber@vtech.dyn.ml.org>

I notice that these failed messages are also all in MIME (coincidence?).
I wonder if the following quote is related to that:

  "Rev. Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> wrote:

  > This machine is icarus2.dyn.ml.org.  Therefore, my MTA generated From
  > line is knghtbrd@icarus2.dyn.ml.org.

This has started to fail recently, but a few other things have changed
also.  Instead of receiving my mail directly to my Debian box, I get it
from an NT server using fetchmail release 4.2.2 using POP3.  Is fetchmail
or the NT server changing the `From' line?

Has anyone seen this happen too?

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Peter Galbraith, research scientist          <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>
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