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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Problem with slocal and From line
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Date: 24 May 91 01:33:00 GMT
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-=Runaway Daemon=- writes:
>							This program needs 
>the From line and slocal steals it for some reason.  Is there any 
>way to get it to pass the whole damn message instead of just what is 
>left over after slocal messes it up?  

Your versions of slocal are turning the "From " lines to "Return Path"
lines.  This is because it was compiled with the "RPATHS" option.  If
you take out RPATHS, I believe it will preserve "From " lines in some
sort of way.  Some solutions:

	1. Recompile MH without RPATHS.  This is probably too drastic.
	2. Rewrite your program to use "Return-path: <address>".
	3. Reconstruct the from line.  In an earlier example, I showed
	   how to get /usr/ucb/vacation (which uses a From line to
	   work when using RPATHS.  First the program:

		#!/bin/sh
		# /homes/elves/ziegast/mhbin/vacation
		sed -e "s/^Return-Path:/From/" -e "1,1s/$/ `date`/" \
		| /usr/ucb/vacation ziegast

	   Then in slocal:

	   To ziegast	^ ? "/homes/elves/ziegast/mhbin/vacation"
	   cc ziegast	^ ? "/homes/elves/ziegast/mhbin/vacation"

For those who didn't notice, my earlier solution for vacation was flawed.

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