qmail DOESN'T touch From: headers.  qmail-inject expects you to supply the
From: header in the message you send to its standard input.  If you don't
supply one it builds one based on the name of the user invoking
qmail-inject.

On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Does anyone know why qmail would replace the From: field in my outgoing mail 
> (which should be "From: Joel Uckelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>") with just my 
> email address? Is there some way I can stop qmail from doing this?
> 
> (NB: as far as I can tell, it is qmail's fault, as it happens when I inject a 
> message directly as well as through my MUA).
> -- 
> J. Uckelman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.public.iastate.edu/~uckelman/
> 
> 
> 

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