Re: question about tunable option

[Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk>]

* Franky Van Liedekerke <liedekef@telenet.be> [Jul 24. 2007 20:57]:
> Hi,
> 
> one of the tunable options is "delheaders", which by default removes
> the headers "From " and "Return-Path:".
> And here is my question: why "From " and not "From:"? There is no
> "From " header in a mail, every header is followed by a colon ... so
> for now this doesn't do anything (please correct me if I'm wrong).

The tunable delheaders is for adding the headers you want to delete
apart from "From " and "Return-Path:", since they _have_ to be deleted
since they have to change now we send the mail on. Maybe you don't have
a "From " header in a single mail, but look in an mbox file.

So if you make a 'delheaders' file like this:

To:
Subject:

Then all To: and Subject: headers will be removed.

> While I'm at it, it would be nice to have a seperate option that
> replaces the "From:" header with the one from the list, or now I do
> this with the extra option "From:" in delheaders and
> "From:" and "Reply-to:" in customheaders.

Don't ever change From: to the listname. It's not the list that's
sending the mail--it's bad netiquette. Just strip Reply-To: and add a
Reply-To: header if you want such, but removing the From: really is very
bad style. You cannot see who's sending the mail.

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Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk
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