Re: CONFIRM_ADDRESS Not Working?

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I configure my mailer (Apple Mail) to send out mail
> through tmda-ofmipd with a newly added rule in my filters/outgoing
> file:
>
> to *@bugs.debian.org tag from bare=3Dappend envelope bare reply-to dated =
resent-from bare
>
> But now, when I send mail purporting to come from my SF account, an
> entry like this in my outgoing log, and the corresponding headers in
> email which is rendered unrepliable, results:
>
> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 00:20:10 +0100
> XPri: [email protected]
> From: Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]>
> Rept: Sabahattin Gucukoglu <[email protected]=
ceforge.net>
> =A0To: [email protected]
> Subj: Re: Bug#626427: linux-image-2.6.38-2-686: Horrible Time Skew, Event=
ual Near-zero Responsiveness
> Actn: to *@bugs.debian.org tag envelope bare reply-to dated from bare=3Da=
ppend resent-from bare(1332)
>
> Can anybody explain this? =A0I thought that is what CONFIRM_ADDRESS is
> for. =A0Besides, which of the sender addresses is it using to derive the
> tagged address from, the envelope sender or the From: field?
>

I don't see what CONFIRM_ADDRESS has to do with this. Confirmation
messages don't seem to be involved in the question, and that's the only
occasion where CONFIRM_ADDRESS is used.

Tagged addresses are generated based on the From: address. The only
exceptions I can see are if the mail has a Resent-From header, in which
case that address is used instead (this has other effects that I'm not
sure about), or if there is neither a From nor a Resent-From header, in
which case the address to base tagged addresses on is constructed from
USERNAME and HOSTNAME.

This is one of many areas of TMDA's functioning that I can't say is
obviously right or wrong. It kind of seems like tagged addresses should
be based on one specific address most of the time, regardless of what
you feel like sticking in any particular email header.

-Kevin

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