On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:28:48PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > > Return-Path: is meant to be inserted into the message headers by the > > sendmail that does final delivery -- it's not something you should set > > on all of the e-mail you send out. The machinery to handle all this > > should already be in your sendmail.cf -- if there's a line: > > > > H?P?Return-Path: <$g> > > > > in the 'Format of Headers' section, then any delivery mailer with 'P' > > in the F= flags (which is the default for the local and prog mailers) > > will insert the Return-Path: header -- eg. > > > > Mlocal, P=/usr/libexec/mail.local, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qPSXfmnz9, > > S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, > > ^^^^ > > OK. I've got the same entries as you, but I am not getting the > Return-Path: put in the header. Now I am reading my mail -on- the server. > Since it is mail.local or in my case procmail that reads it, it -should- > put it in before depositing it in /var/mail for pickup, shouldn't it? > > I have tried compiling with the procmail option out, like yours and it > makes no difference. > > My sendmail.cf shows; > > Mlocal, P=/usr/local/bin/procmail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|@qSPfhn9, S=EnvFromL/Hdr > FromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, > T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, > A=procmail -Y -a $h -d $u > Mprog, P=/bin/sh, F=lsDFMoqeu9, S=EnvFromL/HdrFromL, R=EnvToL/HdrToL, D > =$z:/, > T=X-Unix/X-Unix/X-Unix, > A=sh -c $u
Actually, I use procmail as the default delivery agent myself --- that
example came from /etc/mail/freebsd.cf --- but even so, the
Return-Path: stuff is inserted correctly. How are you checking for
the presence or absence of the header? Most mail applications will
weed it out of what they display to you -- bouncing on the 'h' key in
mutt shows it, generally as the 2nd line of header right underneath
the 'From ' line. Otherwise, grep'ing the mbox file directly is
probably the thing to do.
Cheers,
Matthew
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