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Subject: sendmail -f
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc @ Graphics . Cornell . EDU>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:56:21 -0500
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM


Ok this time I am admittedly missing something very basic.

I'm upgrading to sendmail 8.9.1 running on FreeBSD 3.0  (from um, a
very old version of sendmail running on a very old OS  :-).  I have
searched the sendmail and majordomo FAQs end-to-end and not found
this question.)

When I use sendmail -f in an alias to set up a list, e.g.:

foo:        "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -fowner-foo foo-out"
foo-out:    me
owner-foo:  me,

Instead of doing what you would normally expect, sendmail prepends a
blank line, pushing the existing headers into the message body, and
generates an entire new set of headers at the top, with the -f value
in the new From: header.  Simple example:


---------------------

Return-path: owner-foo@Graphics.Cornell.EDU
Received: (from daemon@localhost)
	by bach.Graphics.Cornell.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA07146
	for foo-out; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:37:38 -0500 (EST)
	(envelope-from owner-foo)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:37:38 -0500 (EST)
From: owner-foo@Graphics.Cornell.EDU
Message-id: <199903242137.QAA07146@bach.Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
Apparently-to: <me@merckx.graphics.cornell.edu>

>From owner-foo  Wed Mar 24 16:37:37 1999
Received: from maytag.graphics.cornell.edu (MAYTAG.GRAPHICS.CORNELL.EDU 
[128.84.247.157])
	by bach.Graphics.Cornell.EDU (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA07143
	for <foo@bach.graphics.cornell.edu>; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:37:37 -0500 (EST)
	(envelope-from me@graphics.cornell.edu)
Received: from localhost by maytag.graphics.cornell.edu; 
(5.65/1.1.8.2/07Nov94-0649PM)
	id AA12908; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 16:37:36 -0500
Message-Id: <9903242137.AA12908@maytag.graphics.cornell.edu>
To: foo@bach.graphics.cornell.edu
Subject: test
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 99 16:37:36 -0500
From: Me <me@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>
X-Mts: smtp


bar

-----------------

Anybody here know how to get 8.9.1 to do the right thing?

-Mitch



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