Re: Processing of From: lines...

[Tom Samplonius <tom@uniserve.com>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 1995, Jens Petersohn wrote:

> In our current networking setup I would like to be able to process the
> From: lines in the message headers. I know that this is highly non-standard,
> but due to a multitude of non-configurable mailers in our subdomains non-
> the-less quite desirable. I have analyzed the flow of events in Zmailer
> 2.2e8, but it appears to me that the From: line is dumped/generated long
> before any of the scripts can get a hold of it. I see how the e and s specs
> in the envelope can be rewriten (using crossbar()), but I have found no
> way (short of calling external programs) in rewriting the header From:
> lines.

  What kind of re-writing do you need to do?  The "localnames" db allows 
simple From: rewriting, based on table lookup.

Tom