On Mon 2017-12-18 16:00:34 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote: > Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net> wrote: >> b) sometimes, i find myself forwarding messages to other people. >> Depending on the account i'm mailing from, I generally prefer to >> minimize the amount of automatically-published information about my >> system setup. > > Ok. I'm a bit of a privacy nut myself, so this seems like a legitimate > problem that you need a solution for (well, that you created a solution > for...). Thanks very much for the patch; that definitely reduced the time I > needed to find to do this. > > I've released getmail v.5.5 with this addion, except I shortened the parameter > name to record_mailbox.
great, thank you very much! > One thing from your report, however: > >> entirely instead, except for the effect it has on %(mailbox) in the >> external MDA case. If you have a solution for that problem, then a fix >> to just remove the X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox header entirely >> would probably be simpler and involve less maintenance and support going >> forward. > > The added header and the %(mailbox) substitution in external command arguments > are unrelated; other than using the same source for their data, there's no > connection between them. Turning the header off does not break %(mailbox) > substitution in MDA_external aguments in my testing. > > If you can show me how to reproduce this problem, I'll take a look at it. hm, i found this a while ago, and i don't think i have a reproducer for it. I'm not sure what i was thinking. I'm happy to hear that it doesn't seem to be a problem! If i find anything similar, i'll be sure to mention it on-list here. Regards, --dkg PS is the getmail development published under any form of revision control? I can work with downloaded tarballs, but if you're using git or svn or hg, i might be better able to send you patches that align with your current development in the odd case where i come up with any clever ideas :)
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