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From: gsf@fruct.us (Gabriel Sean Farrell)
Subject: [sup-talk] return-path
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:47:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080123224712.GB32356@manheim.library.drexel.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1201125726-sup-1297@south>

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:12:07PM -0800, William Morgan wrote:
> Reformatted excerpts from Gabriel Sean Farrell's message of 2008-01-23:
> > I'm writing this message in mutt instead of sup because I send my
> > email via a postfix relay-host and mutt allows me to set my
> > Return-Path equal to my "From:" address with "set envelope_from=yes".
> > If I don't do this, my email is often rejected from mailing lists.
> > 
> > I believe other email clients default to this behavior (see
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users at mutt.org/msg26743.html for the
> > post I'm basing my assumption on).  Could sup follow that, or at least
> > allow the option?
> 
> The Sup way to do this is to have the following line in your
> ~/.sup/hooks/before-edit.rb:
>   header["Return-Path"] = header["From"]
> 
> Unfortunately, you have to apply the following patch or Sup simply
> discards that header. There's a better solution, which is to make Sup
> not discard any headers set by the user when composing email, and I will
> take it as a bugfix task to implement that for the next release.
> 
> diff --git a/lib/sup/mbox.rb b/lib/sup/mbox.rb
> index 0ce52fe..55dd44f 100644
> --- a/lib/sup/mbox.rb
> +++ b/lib/sup/mbox.rb
> @@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ module MBox
>          /^(List-Post):\s+(.*?)\s*$/i,
>          /^(List-Subscribe):\s+(.*?)\s*$/i,
>          /^(List-Unsubscribe):\s+(.*?)\s*$/i,
> +        /^(Return-Path):\s+(.*?)\s*$/i,
>          /^(Status):\s+(.*?)\s*$/i: header[last = $1] = $2
>        when /^(Message-Id):\s+(.*?)\s*$/i: header[mid_field = last = $1] = $2

I've added the line and applied the patch.  Now I see "Return-Path" in
the headers of my message before I send it, but when I receive it the
return-path is still the one I was trying to override.  Could the one I
set still be getting stripped out?


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-23 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-23 21:13 Gabriel Sean Farrell
2008-01-23 22:12 ` William Morgan
2008-01-23 22:47   ` Gabriel Sean Farrell [this message]
2008-01-25  4:03     ` William Morgan
2008-01-25  7:50       ` Gabriel Sean Farrell
2008-01-27 20:03         ` Marcus Williams

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