Software Development <junkyard@primate.wisc.edu> 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.
#
# That's true. However, it already does them; those rewrites are already
# in the code. You're proposing a new one. My argument was that your
# proposal can be repeated in an endless variety of ways (particularly the
# "Are there other headers that should be rewritten..." part), and the result
# of adopting them would be what? A mess.
#
# Aren't there other tools like procmail that already allow fairly arbitrary
# header rewriting? Why reinvent it in resend?
I think "resend" is the right place to put it (it was created for such
things), but we need to figure out a different way of specifying the
rewrites than via a command line option per possible rewrites; there
are already far too many command line options for "resend".
-Brent
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