David DeSimone writes:
> > As a result, mutt seems to think any and every piece of mail forwarded
> > from my ISP was sent by me, when it reality it wasn't 90% of the time:
> > it was sent by someone else, and forwarded from an alternate address.
>
> Can you show us the headers from such a forwarded message? This doesn't
> sound right at all.
Sure. Rather than include it here, I put it online at:
http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/mutt-samp.txt
When I use mutt to read this folder (using the '-f' option) I get:
1 O Jul 21 To Perl5 Porte ( 19) [p5p] Re: FMTEYEWTK on Perl "Prototypes"
2 O Jul 21 To OT Users Gr ( 31) Re: (OTUG) Capturing technical requirements
3 O Jul 21 To ClearCase U ( 91) [cciug] CM positions in the Bay Area
and yet I was not the originator of any of these messages. My output from
"mutt -v" is as follows:
Mutt 0.95.4i (1999-03-03)
[...]
System: SunOS 5.5.1
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
+USE_IMAP +USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR -BUFFY_SIZE
-EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
SENDMAIL="/usr/lib/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
SHAREDIR="/usr/misc/mutt-0.95.4/lib/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/misc/mutt-0.95.4/etc"
ISPELL="/usr/misc/bin/ispell"
> It sounds to me like some other program already munged the headers when
> it forwarded the mail between accounts! Are you using a simple .forward
> file, or is there something more?
I have a simple .forward file containing only my email address:
$ cat .forward
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> As far as I know, Mutt only uses the From: header if it's there, and
> never uses the Received: headers to figure out anything.
Thats what I would hope. I don't understand why it thinks those
messages are from me, and how to convince it that they aren't.
Thanks for they reply!
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Brad Appleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/
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