[Dovecot] Envelope From changed - why?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Apr 26 00:40:58 EEST 2004


On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 13:48, Tom Alsberg wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I am evaluating Dovecot as an IMAP server.  I noticed on thing which
> irritates me.  When a user saves a message to an IMAP folder with the
> Dovecot server, the envelope From line is changed to the address of
> that user, instead of keeping the From line of the original message.
> 
> How can I have the original envelope From line preserved when saving
> messages?

I'm not quite sure what you mean. The mbox From-line? From where should
it keep it? IMAP protocol doesn't provide IMAP server that information,
so Dovecot just adds the user name.

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