Re: [PATCH] hooks--update: new, required, config variable: hooks.envelopesender,

On Friday 2007 March 23 12:11, Jim Meyering wrote:

This change adds a new, required, config variable: hooks.envelopesender,
and use that with sendmail's -f option.  This is important in order
to avoid relying on sendmail's "guess" at an appropriate envelope
sender address.  Without this, and in the presence of strict servers,
it is far too easy not ever to be notified, or (more insidious) never
to receive bounce email.

Won't work.

From "man sendmail" (although my sendmail is actually exim)

"Set  the address of the sender of a locally-generated message. This option 
can normally be used only by root or the Exim user or by one of the con-              
figured trusted users. However, anyone may use it when testing a filter file 
with -bf or when testing or verifying addresses using the -bt  or  -bv
options.  In  other  cases, the sender of a local message is always set up as 
the user who ran the exim command, and -f is ignored, with one exception."

The hook scripts run under the identity of the user doing the push; so "-f" 
won't have an effect.

I'm not sure why you would even need it; as the above quote says, the sender 
is set up as the user who ran the command.

I've only tested this with exim; perhaps it's different for other mailers.



Andy

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