envelopes in mail

[The Tank]

Sending an email from one remote linux box to another using sendmail and downlaoding the mail as a pop account. The receipent box is using fetchmail to collect the email. Fetchmail can then sort it out by using the envelopes etc. etc.

Except there is no envelope when you look at the message when it is downloaded. As the person sending the mail how can I make sure the mail as envelope with it?

By the way need the envelope as it is multidrop and it then being distributed to a network of comps.

Or am I looking at this the wrong way where fetchmail inserts the envelope. Having no experience with fetchmail myself it is difficult to rule this out.

Any help useful links apart from the fetchmail site that is would be gratefully appreciated. :rolleyes:

[Henrycoffin]

It is not fetchmail that inserts the envelope as far as i am aware the envelope is the conversation that goes on between the senders sendmail and the recipients sendmail conveying sender and recipient information. This is done seperate from and before the mail which contains the header is transmitted. Because this information is conveyed seperately from the header it is called the envelope.

Hope this helps for more information i suggest Sendmails web site (http://www.sendmail.org)