On 2019-06-07 07:22, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Are you looking in mbox files or in other places. [...] Hmm, my maildir
message files also have From_ lines.
If fetchmail's delivering to a programme, nothing prevents that being an
arbitrary script to premangle a leading From_ line. Hmm. I've got a
script in my bin directory called "unfrom_" for exactly this purpose,
which reads:
#!/usr/bin/env sed -f
#
# Transmute leading "From " line on email message, if any.
# - Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> 13jul2002
#
1{s/^From /From_: /}
You can just include that script in a pipeline ahead of maildrop.
Yep.
I've also seen From_ lines in maildir message files, and on the stdin of
delivery agents. Both are wrong, in my opinion. I think mbox From_ lines
should not exist anywhere outside mbox files.
I've written a script much like yours, to drop the damn From_ line from
an incoming message passed to a delivery agent. I think your script does
something that's not quite right: it transforms the mbox From_ line to
something that's not RFC 822. You could do, say,
s/^From /X-Mbox-From: /
Or -- my recommendation -- just drop it. (Of course, drop it only if
that first line really is an mbox From_ line.)
