Replacing email envelope

Stephan Bosch stephan at rename-it.nl
Fri Nov 30 11:31:09 EET 2018


Op 20/11/2018 om 22:51 schreef jon.sp2 at wp.pl:
> Hi,
>
> Could you please advice how I can replace envelope of a message 
> received on my server? Best would be using sieve.
>
> Simple case - email A at example.com <mailto:A at example.com> receives 
> message, which I'd like to repack into new envelope (I want to have 
> control what values in the envelope will be there - from, to, 
> replay-to et.c) and send to B at test.com <mailto:B at test.com>.
>
> At first I wanted to use editheader extension, but it is not allowing 
> me to modify From or To values as far as I can tell. Another idea was 
> to use envelope, but I don't see any way of editing values. Only reading.
>
> Now, I am thinking of writing script and from sieve it will be passed 
> there, where I'll do message parsing and send new message using mutt 
> or something similar. Frankly speaking I suppose there is much better 
> solution to that and I'd appreciate any advice on the topic.


Your story conflates the message envelope with the message header. From 
your description, I gather you in fact mean the message headers that 
contain sender and recipient addresses. You should be able to modify 
those using the editheader extension (first deleteheader then addheader).


Regards,

Stephan.

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