On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:38:57PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
| Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
| > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:18:21PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
|  
| >> When you bounce a message, mutt takes the message as it was received by
| >> you and hands it back to sendmail with a new addressee so that sendmail
| >> can put it on its way.  This is just like a .forward file in that sense
| >> (though it's done manually, of course); nothing in the message envelope
| >> is changed, and new headers are added.
|  
| > Minor nit:  the envelope sender is changed.  With a .forward it isn't.
| 
| i think that may be more of a feature - presumably you would want the
| bounce message to go to you if the "bounce" failed, rather than to the
| sender of the original message....

I agree.  Just don't be surprised when it happens because someone said
"nothing" is changed :-).

Oh, actually, the entire envelope is changed.  I think David meant to
write "headers" --
    nothing in the message headers (or body) is changed, and new
    headers are added

-D

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