On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:33:18 +0200, Ingo Molnar said: > Also, sendmail does not screw up From: headers that are in the body of the > email - forwarding emails is one of the oldest things that can be done to > emails. What some Sendmail configurations *do* eat is lines that start with 'From ' (no colon). Those will get escaped as '>From ...' to prevent them from looking like a separator line for what's known as 'mbox' format - which is basically the same info as in the Return-Path: header plus a timestamp. They look like: >From hostmaster@prairie.net Fri Apr 19 15:50:15 2002 (If the above line has a >From, you have the issue. Yes, it could be smarter and do a full parse for a mbox header rather than just '^From '. And yes, I had to go digging to find an old archived mbox format file to snarf the example from.