[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason R. Mastaler) writes:

> Stephen Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>> fix the only thing I consider a 'real' bug, which is not-invoking
>>> sendmail_program with '-f <mailfrom>' when in 'pure-proxy' mode.
>>
>> Robert,
>>
>> For my education, could you explain this part of the patch a bit more?
>> Doesn't sendmail provide a sensible default envelope sender even without
>> the -f option? What problems were you seeing that this change solves?
>> BTW, I'm not a /usr/sbin/sendmail expert, so feel free to point out if
>> it's blindlingly obvious!
>
> The envelope sender address comes from the MUA and is set in the SMTP
> transaction.  If this isn't happening, I think the proper recourse is
> to help the user with this mail settings.  The second reason I don't
> like this part of the patch is that it will only work when doing
> /usr/sbin/sendmail sending, not if MAIL_TRANSPORT is to to smtp, and
> that creates an inconsistency.

Scratch this, I wasn't reading the code right.  It is a bug, and
should be fixed, so yes please check in the 'sendmail -f' part of
Robert's patch.

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