Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 10 Dec 1999:
> mutt could just pass "-f<address>" to sendmail.
>
> Note that at least sendmail and the sendmail emulation of postfix
> can handle this.
I was trying to see if qmail's sendmail emulation script does, I think
so, but wasn't able to confirm it in documentation. (Yes, I know,
should be easy enough to test.)
I wonder about the other popular MTA's, exim, smail, whatever are
there? Maybe they have good enough "sendmail emulation" that this
would actually work as a general case. If so, then it's worth
considering. Then again, it's already possible for the user to
change the sendmail command for this purpose. But I suppose it
would be nice if Mutt would do this automatically according to the
>From address, or have a separate $return_path variable or something.
The most flexible approach that I can think of would be to have two
variables, $use_from_as_return_path, and $return_path. $return_path
gets used always if defined, otherwise there's either no explicit
return path set or it's set according to the From header, depending
on whether $use_from_as_return_path is set. Obviously the names
could be something better.
Anyway, I'm not arguing for or against whether this should or shouldn't
added, I'm quite happy to have a single address as my envelope sender
for all my emails. :-)
Mikko
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