On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 07:09:26PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> (Please Cc me on replies. I just subscribed, don't know
> if email flow is immediate.)
> 
> I have an old script that resends complete email files
> to myself, via cat file | sendmail -i.
> This works fine, I get the email with good formatting
> and with only the body text of the original email in
> the email body. No old email headers in the body.
> 

You mean that with `sendmail -i` did extract the headers
from the content instead of generating them itself ?

What MTA were you using ?


> With opensmtpd however, this doesn't work. I get the
> complete email file with its headers, and with no
> MIME formatting done. Opensmtpd treats the original
> email like a plain text file, not like an email object.
> 

Yes


> Is there some way of doing what I need with opensmtpd?
>

Not without adding an option to our enqueuer and tell it to consider the
input as a DATA part entirely. This is not hard to do however we need to
make sure to pickup the right option.

-i is rather strange, on Postfix it means to not consider "." on single
line as end of input. What MTA were you using ?


> Otherwise, is there some small utility that would do this?
> I would like to avoid installing sendmail for these resends.
> 

Well, meanwhile you can use pretty much any other MUA including the
previous one in SMTP mode if it supports it.


-- 
Gilles Chehade

https://www.poolp.org                                          @poolpOrg

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