From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mads Martin Joergensen Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:17:55 +0000 Subject: Re: question about tunable option Message-Id: <20070724191755.GA2073@mmj.dk> List-Id: References: <20070724205639.58a3afa6@franky> In-Reply-To: <20070724205639.58a3afa6@franky> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org * Franky Van Liedekerke [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. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.