Hi I am newbie on technology sorry.
Do you know how I setup gmail to forward to a group of other emails? From their webmail I can setup the only one. Will postfix do this stuff? Maggie > > On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 17:24, Dominic Raferd <domi...@timedicer.co.uk> > wrote: > >> On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 17:05, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: >> > >> > Noel Jones: >> > > On 10/22/2019 10:27 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote: >> > > > On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 at 16:18, Noel Jones <njo...@megan.vbhcs.org> >> wrote: >> > > >> ... >> > > >>> I am using postfix 3.3. Apart from cron, the only other local >> source >> > > >>> of such old-style headers that I can find is postfix itself: >> > > >>> e.g. From: mailer-dae...@streamingbats.co.uk (Mail Delivery >> System) >> > > >>> - maybe more recent postfix releases use the new style? >> > > >>> >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#header_from_format >> > > > >> > > > Thanks Noel but I am using that (default) setting already: >> > > > # postconf header_from_format >> > > > header_from_format = standard >> > > > >> > > > I find the same behaviour in postfix 3.3.0 and 3.3.2. >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Then whatever is generating the mail uses the obsolete format. You >> > > can use a header_checks IGNORE action to remove the offending >> > > header, and postfix will add it back. >> > >> > That is a better suggestion than using header_checks. However this >> > works only for /usr/bin/sendmail submission. >> >> I will try this, thanks. but it still seems to me that local >> double-bounce messages, which surely originate from Postfix, are using >> the legacy From header. I have put a (lightly obfuscated and >> shortened) example at https://pastebin.com/mVqGjAn2 which was >> generated while the server's internet connection was down - note the >> From: header. >> > > I can confirm that Noel's suggestion (using IGNORE in header_checks) works > - this corrects the 'From' header in messages from the local Cron Daemon > from the 'obsolete' to the new 'standard' format. Thank you. > > However I think double-bounce messages in Postfix 3.3 do not observe the > header_from_format > setting and instead use the 'obsolete' format. >
