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Postfix Archives: Re: trivial-rewrite and append_at_myorigin

Re: trivial-rewrite and append_at_myorigin

Subject: Re: trivial-rewrite and append_at_myorigin
From: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsawcnri.reston.va.us)
Date: Thu Dec 09 1999 - 13:52:30 CST

>>>>> "WV" == Wietse Venema <wietseporcupine.org> writes:

>> Hi all, I have a question about the append_at_myorigin
>> configuration variable. On messages coming into my system,
>> destined for a Mailman mailing list, I occasionally see From:
>> addresses that look like this... From: john
>> brownsomeplace.com

    WV> That is TWO addresses:

    WV> 1 - john

    WV> 2 - brownsomeplace.com

    WV> The error is with the sender. From: lines with two addresses
    WV> do not make sense.

>> Ideal behavior would be for the From: header to not get munged
>> at all, and to just be forwarded to the mailing list verbatim.

    WV> In order to prevent broken From: headers from being changed,
    WV> you have to fix practically every mailer on this planet.

    WV> Good luck. I think it is easier to fix the client.

Agreed. The error is with the client. The two addresses are a red
herring. I should have phrased my question like this:

If a message comes in with a bare user name in the From: field,
Postfix will rewrite this to user$mydomain. The documentation for
trivial-rewrite, and in the sample-rewrite.cf file seems to indicate
that if I set append_at_myorigin=no, this rewrite will be avoided.
However, even though I set this in my main.cf, the header rewriting
still occurs. Why?

Thanks,
-Barry

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