Haha -- guess what. :) Just on a whim I tried setting the Return-Path with a
"my_hdr" command and qmail did honor it! Perfect!
I was all excited about it, but you beat me to the punch. :)
Thanks!
On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 08:42:58PM +0200, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 29 Jan 2000:
> > I've been doing this on my qmail system; however, qmail still puts a
> > "Return-Path" header on the message which indicates the local username
> > who called "sendmail." I haven't found any way around this yet.
>
> Ahh. That's the envelope sender. I thought about mentioning it, but
> you specifically asked about the From: header, so I left out the
> envelope sender to avoid potention confusion. :-)
>
> > You can set the $QMAILUSER and $QMAILHOST env vars to specify what you
> > want in the Return-Path header but once you do that, all msgs you send
> > will use it -- even if you generate your own From lines.
>
> I use MAILUSER and MAILHOST to set it to what I want, but those ought to
> work too (according to the qmail-inject man page). I set these
> variables at login time, so they're set for all emails I send. You
> could also create a wrapper script to mutt that will set them for you.
> It's by far the easiest solution, I think. Alternatively, you could
> also set a Return-Path: header for your emails from within Mutt, and
> qmail should (by default) respect that. I've not tried that approach
> myself though.
>
> > I am trying to figure out if there's a way to force qmail to generate
> > the Return-Path header based on the From line, but haven't seen any way
> > to do this so far.
>
> I don't think you can do exactly this. You need to specify the envelope
> sender *some* way -- either via the environment variables, or the
> Return-Path: header, or on the command line (sendmail -fsender@address).
> The latest developement version of Mutt has support for doing the
> latest too, I think.
>
> > If anyone has any better ideas, I'm all ears. :) I can't stand having
> > my local username in the headers when I am trying to "hide" it with my
> > own headers.
>
> You should be able to hide it with one of the options above; if you
> still have trouble feel free to write back. :-)
>
>
> Mikko
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