Rich Winkel rich@math.missouri.edu wrote on 24 Sep 2007 18:05:

Under freebsd 4.x, the native mail.local that sendmail uses by default writes From_ lines that include the origin address. This is very readily parsable and handy for quick greps in mboxes. But deliver defaults it to MAILER-DAEMON. I see you can specify the envelope From_ with "-f", but I'm not sure how that's useful.

Also I'm trying to figure out the instructions for making deliver the default delivery program under sendmail. This is a very plain vanilla setup I have here, procmail is not configured into sendmail.cf so I'm not sure how to adapt the instructions at wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sendmail Any help would be much appreciated. I've appended my local mailer stuff below. Should I just substitute deliver's path for mail.local?

I use sendmail with dovecot's deliver to be able to use the sieve plugin. In my sendmail configuration I replaced the local mailer with:

define(LOCAL_MAILER_PATH',/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver') define(LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS',DFMPhfnu9') define(LOCAL_MAILER_ARGS',deliver -d $u')

MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp)

Note the mailer flag "f", thats adds a "-f fromaddress" argument to the deliver program.

I have also a proposal for an enhancement to handle plussed addresses, but I'll create a new thread for this topic.

Regards, Frank

Frank Behrens, Osterwieck, Germany PGP-key 0x5B7C47ED on public servers available.