Hi. On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 02:08:40PM -0000, Curt wrote: > On 2019-02-22, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 09:37:06AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> (2) Mutt has a feature that lets you send an EXACT copy of a message > >>> to a different address, preserving all of the headers and content > >>> verbatim. Mutt calls this "bouncing". > >> > >>If this is such a good feature, why is mutt the only agent doing it? > > > > It isn't. But it's not a common feature, in common mailers. It's > > analogous to a power tool. All mutt is really doing is feeding the mail > > to /usr/bin/sendmail, and specifying the address to which you want it > > sent on the sendmail command-line. It relies upon you having a properly > > configured /usr/bin/sendmail interface (which is provided by, for > > example, Exim — not just Sendmail). The same result can be achieved with > > a procmail recipe, or a shell script, if you have access to the raw > > mail. > > What Linux mail user agents lack this feature, if it is uncommon?
Let's see. kmail, balsa, evolution - basically anything that's either shipped with DE, or written with "Modern App" approach in mind. > I'd also point out that, at least in Alpine, the feature does not depend > on or require the use of an external MTA such as sendmail, Exim, etc. mutt's happy to bounce without /usr/bin/sendmail too. Reco
