From: Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com>
To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: exim pipe transport, notmuch insert and mbox-style messages
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 12:57:14 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141129125714.GA23134@x230> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tx1r7enm.fsf@maritornes.cs.unb.ca>
David Bremner <david@tethera.net> wrote:
> Edward Betts <edward@4angle.com> writes:
> > I wonder if 'notmuch insert' could be modified to detect and drop the From_
> > line before writing the message to disk and index it. It could do that
> > silently or with a warning.
>
> I don't know about the larger question(s), but I'd suggest just escaping
> it to something like X-Envelope-From: . There may even be some
> semi-standard header to use for this.
The main piece of information in the From_ line is the return path address, a
properly configured MTA will add a Return-path header.
RFC 2821 says the Return-path header is added to a message "when the
delivery SMTP server makes the final delivery".
I don't think the From_ line needs to be captured into an X-Envelope-From
header. We could make 'notmuch insert' add the 'Return-path' header to
messages if it is missing, but the From_ line is present. This is probably too
much complexity.
--
Edward.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-29 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-22 9:28 exim pipe transport, notmuch insert and mbox-style messages Edward Betts
2014-11-22 9:44 ` David Bremner
2014-11-22 16:26 ` Andrei POPESCU
2014-11-29 12:57 ` Edward Betts [this message]
2014-11-29 13:21 ` David Bremner
2014-11-23 10:20 ` Tomi Ollila
2014-11-23 11:08 ` Tomi Ollila
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