Hello,

I take the liberty to suggest that the maildropex or maildropfilter man page be amended.

While the maildropfilter man page says that the arguments of

to '!address'

are all passed to SENDMAIL, it is not explicit as to the envelope sender address. The user may desire to forward a mail while keeping the original envelope sender. Doing so is trivial, but not obvious to newbies.

The solution is:

to "!-f \"$FROM\" address"

(Of course, this also works with cc.)

So may I suggest that the paragraph

An expression that begins with an exclamation mark, "!" specifies a whitespace-delimited list of E-mail addresses to forward the message to. The program specified by the SENDMAIL variable is run as an external program, with the list of E-mail addresses provided as parameters to the program.

be changed to:

An expression that begins with an exclamation mark, "!" specifies a whitespace-delimited list of E-mail addresses to forward the message to. The program specified by the SENDMAIL variable is run as an external program, with the list of E-mail addresses provided as parameters to the program. So, if you wish to keep the original envelope sender intact, use something like:

to "!-f \"$FROM\" joe....@example.com"

Of course, you will have to adjust "joe....@example.com" to the real address where you want the mail forwarded.

(I am donating this documentation to Maildrop, permission to relicense under any Open Source Initiative approved license is herewith granted.)

Thanks a lot.