"Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk@unpc.queernet.org> writes:
# > > Is there a reason *not* to add a "-F" option that removes the "From:" header
# > > and replaces it? Are there other headers that should be rewritten or
# > > omitted that are not currectly rewritable?
# >
# > Yes, and the reason is that any number of us can come up with special-case
# > header rewriting, and putting all that stuff in resend isn't the place
# > to do it.
#
# The same case can be made for some of the rewrites it *already* does.
The rewrites that "resend" already does are, for the most part, the
ones _I_ needed it to do (or thought I did at the time, anyway) for
the various lists I run. That doesn't imply there aren't other
rewrites that other folks would find useful for the lists _they_ run,
or that such rewrites don't necessarily belong in "resend".
Now, that said, "resend" (at least the 1.6x version; I'm not that
familiar with 1.92's yet) suffers from a terrible case of command line
option bloat... There are already over a dozen command line options,
some of which are case-sensitive (which causes problems for some
mailers, including Sendmail when running with certain configurations).
So, on the one hand, in general I think that "resend" _is_ the right
place to do header-hacking; that is precisely what it was written for.
On the other hand, it's not clear that the current command-line option
mechanism for specifying these rewrites is adequate or scalable (it's
certainly not general); it may be time to come up with a different
method for specifying the rewrites.
-Brent
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