[Techtalk] `TO:' header alias rewrite - Sendmail

[David Merrill]

On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 10:57:03AM -0800, Kai MacTane wrote:
> At 3/29/02 05:00 PM , Nosferatu!!! wrote:
> 
> >Say I have the following alias definition in /etc/aliases -
> >ruby:           rubidium at hotmail.com
> >
> >Now, sendmail expands the "ruby" to the proper address in "RCPT TO:",
> >but, the "To:" header in the message still reads "To: ruby".
> >
> >Its not a big deal for me except that "ruby" has Hotmail filtering
> >on that rejects messages whose "To:" header does not read as
> >"To: rubidium at hotmail.com"
> 
> I don't know a whole lot about Sendmail. My only suggestion is: you could 
> redirect the alias to a program that does the header rewriting and then 
> re-sends the mail to the destination. So in /etc/alias:

formail is good for that. It's what I call to do header rewriting in
Procmail.

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