[PATCH 8/9] Allow users to optionally specify their envelope sender.

From: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Date: Apr 26, 2007, 02:37 UTC
Message-ID: <11775550433762-git-send-email-robbat2@gentoo.org>
In-Reply-To: <1177555043174-git-send-email-robbat2@gentoo.org>

From: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>

If your normal user is not the same user you are subscribed to a list with, then the default envelope sender used will cause your messages to bounce or silently vanish into the ether.

This patch provides an optional parameter to set the envelope sender. To use it with the sendmail binary, you must have privileges to use the -f parameter!

Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
---
 git-send-email.perl |   10 +++++++++-
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
index 82468bd..e1562b3 100755
--- a/git-send-email.perl
+++ b/git-send-email.perl
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ Options:
 
    --dry-run	  Do everything except actually send the emails.
 
+   --envelope-sender	Specify the envelope sender used to send the emails.
+
 EOT
 	exit(1);
 }
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ my (@to,@cc,@initial_cc,@bcclist,@xh,
 my ($chain_reply_to, $quiet, $suppress_from, $no_signed_off_cc,
 	$dry_run) = (1, 0, 0, 0, 0);
 my $smtp_server;
+my $envelope_sender;
 
 # Example reply to:
 #$initial_reply_to = ''; #<20050203173208.GA23964@foobar.com>';
@@ -177,6 +180,7 @@ my $rc = GetOptions("from=s" => \$from,
 		    "suppress-from" => \$suppress_from,
 		    "no-signed-off-cc|no-signed-off-by-cc" => \$no_signed_off_cc,
 		    "dry-run" => \$dry_run,
+		    "envelope-sender=s" => \$envelope_sender,
 	 );
 
 unless ($rc) {
@@ -479,7 +483,11 @@ X-Mailer: git-send-email $gitversion
 	}
 
 	my @sendmail_parameters = ('-i', @recipients);
-	my $raw_from = extract_valid_address($from);
+	my $raw_from = $from;
+	$raw_from = $envelope_sender if (defined $envelope_sender);
+	$raw_from = extract_valid_address($raw_from);
+	unshift (@sendmail_parameters,
+			'-f', $raw_from) if(defined $envelope_sender);
 
 	if ($dry_run) {
 		# We don't want to send the email.

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1.5.2.rc0.43.g2f4c7