RESOLVED Re: Creating "Recipient List Suppressed" Email

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Author: Ed Skinner
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Subject: RESOLVED Re: Creating "Recipient List Suppressed" Email
(Mostly for) Jeremy,
      Thanks for the pointers on sendmail which is decidedly NOT my area of 
expertise. I don't plan on doing a lot of these kinds of mailings but it'll 
be nice to clean up that "wart", nonetheless.
      As for the "mail" program, I presumed the behavior I am seeing is a 
security feature (of sorts). Other than through command line options, it 
doesn't appear that "mail" will let the user muck-about with the header 
lines.
      To verify this, I ran a test. Here's the command I tried( as per your 
earlier suggestion):


( echo "Reply-To: <eskinner>" ; echo "Subject: whatever" ; echo ; \
echo "This is the body of the message" ) | mail eskinner

     And below here is the received message (with "> " inserted before each 
line). Note the TWO (2) empty (except for "> " lines, the first of which 
signals the end of the header. The "Reply-To" and "Subject" lines (from the 
typed command above) come after that break, and fall in the body of the 
message. Not what I want.


> From  Fri Apr 18 14:49:57 2003
> Return-Path: <>
> Received: from gort.rytetyme.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
>     by gort.rytetyme.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h3ILnv5E031707
>     for <>; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:49:57 -0700
> Received: (from eskinner@localhost)
>     by gort.rytetyme.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h3ILnvfO031705
>     for eskinner; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:49:57 -0700
> Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 14:49:57 -0700
> From: Ed Skinner <>
> Message-Id: <>
> To: 
> Status: R 
> X-Status: N

>
> Reply-To: <eskinner>
> Subject: whatever
>
> This is the body of the message
>
>


     But to agree with you, I remember that I *used* to be able to do this on 
System V Unix. In fact, that was my first attempt on Linux but, as you can 
see, it doesn't give the desired effect.
     Regardless, sendmail is giving me a "good enough" solution now and, with 
your pointers, should be able to go all the way.
     Again, thanks for the help!


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Ed Skinner, , http://www.flat5.net/