Re: getaddr confusion

On Wed, 2016-04-20 at 14:01 +0100, ed wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 01:03:28PM +0100, Neil Romig wrote:
> > I am using getaddr in .mailfilter to extract addresses:
> > 
> > if( /^From:\s*(.*)/:h )
> > {
> >  FRM=getaddr($MATCH1)
> > }
> > ...
> > I guess the hyphen is causing trouble - is this a bug or am I
> > failing
> > to understand?
> 
> May I ask which MTA are you using? Personally, I have found the 
> following works ok and doesn't require parsing the (arguably) more 
> complex From: header.
> 
>   import RECIPIENT
>   import SENDER
>   logfile "/home/username/maildrop.log"
>   log "$SENDER $RECIPIENT storing in inbox"
> 
> The benefit here is that the MTA should set SENDER and RECIPIENT 
> environments which maildrop can then read and use in the log
> statement.
> 
> Been using this for many years without problem.
> 

I am using a standard Courier install on Debian 8 to provide all my
needs. It is presently only one email source that is giving me trouble,
though I cannot see anything wrong in the mail message, but it is the
only one with both double quotes and a hyphen in the comment between
From: and the <address>. Other messages with hyphens and without quotes
are extracted properly...
I have tried $SENDER but it picks up Return-Path: so I will have to
check which messages have different Return-Path: and From: and why!

Neil.

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