[ILUG] resending already delivered mail

[Kenn Humborg]

> > To send a message file intact like you want to do, then you
> > might try sendmail -t -oem.  But what you'd really need to do 
> > is take the contents of the original From_ header (not From:)
> > and to sendmail -t -oem -f"<Orig From>".
> > 
> 
> what does the "-oem" do? sets some options, but which ones?

If there's an error send back a bounce message to you
rather than exiting the sendmail command with a non-zero
status and printing an error message or dropping the message
into dead.letter.  I.e. always accept the message (IIRC, 
really rushed right now).

> also: where will it appear to have come from if i don't do the
> -f"<orig_from>" bit?

You.  Well, the From: header will be OK, but the envelope
sender (remember this? :-) will be paulj at itg (sendmail
sees that you're SU-ed and gets your real UID, I think).

Most users won't see the envelope sender, though...

Later,
Kenn