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Re: Mail-Followup-To still broken in mutt/exim



On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 07:22:31PM -0400, Brendan Cully (brendan@kublai.com) wrote:

> > 'karsten' is a valid email address on my host.  It's not on the
> > Internet.  I'm a bit stumped as to why exim rewriting isn't working.
> 
> so use your internet address. exim probably has no interest in
> non-standard headers like MFT.

This should be tunable behavior.  Nonconfigurable interference or
nonconfigurable ignoring of headers is bad.  Choice is good.

> mutt strips out the names it recognises as yours from the MFT
> header. That is one reason why you should set $from to
> kmself@ix.netcom.com.
> 
> Why don't you want to set $from?

Because it breaks local mail if my internet connection is fscked.  It
makes my internal network dependent on external connections and servers.

I'm looking at a send-hook to set $from conditionally.  I'd prefer an
exim solution.


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