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

[janechen9 at netscape.net]

Try sendmail with the -t option, and pass in the headers as variables.

David Merrill <david at lupercalia.net> wrote:

>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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