On Thu, 15 May 2008, Phil Pennock wrote:
> On 2008-05-15 at 01:39 -0700, Christian Gregoire wrote:
> > When a message with a 'From:' header line contains a comma, like :
> >     From: my, test <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sendmail rewrites it, prepending @domain_ name before the comma :
> >     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] name, test <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I take it you mean "Exim", not "Sendmail"?
>
> > If the line is encoded beforehand by the SMTP client (quoted-printable,
> > base64, ...), this rule does not apply. I noticed the same behaviour with 
> > Sendmail.
> >
> > Is there an explanation to this, and a way to deactivate it ? It's not
> > about the MAIL FROM command, but the From: field.
>
> You can't deactivate it.

The -bnq command line option should do the trick.

However I agree that the thing to do is to fix the program that generated
the message so that it doesn't create messages with syntax errors.

Tony.
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   http://dotat.at/   ${sg{\N${sg{\
N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\
\N}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}

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