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- From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: Filter and From header line
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:27:05 -0600
- Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
- Lines: 34
- Sender: daemon@cs.utexas.edu
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- Ronald Harichandran said:
- ]Use of "from" in filter-rules currently matches text on the From: line.
- ]With some of the automatic LISTSERVers, the original poster's address is
- ]retained in the From: line, and the only way to know that the message is
- ]from a particular LISTSERVer is to look at the very first From header
- ]line. Is there any way to instruct the filter program to scan the very
- ]first From header line in mail?
-
- The original poster's addr is *always* retained in the "From:" line
- when such an item is distributed by LISTSERV. "LISTSERV" of course
- refers to Eric Thomas' implementation of the list server concept, ie.
- the one and only program which is allowed to use the name "LISTSERV",
- if one respects trademarks (even when not formally registered, ie.
- based only on ones morals).
-
- That was just to make clear that "LISTSERV" is imho a protected name,
- and should not be applied to other list servers.
-
- LISTSERV uses the "Sender:" field as per RFC-822, if I'm not very wrong.
- Ie. "Sender:" states where the item came from last, and overrides the
- address in "From:" (which with LISTSERV states the original author of
- the item).
- So to answer your question, you should look in the "Sender:" field for
- the name of a discussion list if sent by LISTSERV software.
- This may not necessarily be the address of the LISTSERV itself!
-
- If it's not LISTSERV but some other list server (or mailing list manager),
- then all bets are off as far as *I* can tell. Too many different solutions
- have been implemented, imho. :-(
-
- Regards.
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