On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:18:21PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > One thing I didn't see revisited was your subscription problem. Are you > now subscribed? Do you want to be?
I've figured it out now. Worked fine from the new address. > When you bounce a message, mutt takes the message as it was received by > you and hands it back to sendmail with a new addressee so that sendmail > can put it on its way. This is just like a .forward file in that sense > (though it's done manually, of course); nothing in the message envelope > is changed, and new headers are added. So, does mutt add a Resent-To: header or does it not? If it does, there is evidence that this does not work sometimes. I'm trying to lay my hands on such a message. > When you resend a message, all of the transit-related headers (Received:) > are thrown away, the identification headers (From:) are available to > change as necessary, and the body is wrapped in a new envelope. I'm > almost certain that it's completely a new message, > with the Message-ID: regenerated on your system, too. Does that mean that mutt won't be able to sort it into the correct thread? > All you're doing is using the old > message as a template for an entirely new message that happens to look > very similar (usually). > > What is it that you used to do, and what is it that you really want to > do? I used to bounce mails and I want to bounce mails. Not that I care what actually happens with the mail, but bouncing a message requires two keystrokes (<b> <type new address> <ret>) while resending requires 12 (<esc><e> <:> <w> <q> <ret> <t> <ctrl><a> <k> <type new address> <ret> y). Hm, can I pass keystrokes into vi with a macro? But at the moment it doesn't look like I can continue to use 'bounce' since the list of Received: headers is getting too long with this mail server. > You sound as though you've been doing this for a while, so please > forgive the basic level of my explanations and questions, No offense taken. I try to avoid fiddling with the mail system as much as possible, so my knowledge of how mail transport works exactly is limited. > but 'b'ouncing > hasn't changed since I met mutt at 0.88 and I can't imagine, particularly > since it also works the same way in elm, that it was *ever* any different. Well, I belive you. What else could have changed to cause my troubles? BTW, I'd like to setup my mail system to send external mails over a different server than internal ones (because our servers are blacklisted). What mailer would you recommend (exim, sendmail, postfix, ...?) I'm currently using exim. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe
