bouncing email and "from" address

[Ofer Inbar]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 09:17:13PM +0100,
Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> >However .. when I use the "bounce" feature, mutt is not using my From:
> >header.  It's generating a From: address using the actual name of the
> >individual host, hymie at alfred.nasalinux.net , and I don't want it to
> >do that.
> 
> My understanding is that this EXACTLY NOT the behaviour of 'b'. I
> used to use 'b' a lot in client support, when someone would email me
> with a query that should really be dealt with by someone else. So it
> should work like Forward, but it explicitly NOT mess with the
> headers, and preserve the original sender, so that the recipient is
> completely unaware that it has been "rerouted" through my mailbox.
> The most important thing is that when they reply the reply CORRECTLY
> goes back to the person who send it. With Forward, the reply would
> come back to me, which would be completely pointless.
> 
> Why yours is creating a different address is a mystery to me.

mutt's "bounce" is the email standard re-send feature.
It should send a message with a series of new headers added:
  Resent-From: 
  Resent-Date: 
  Resent-Message-ID: 
  Resent-To: 

Original From:, Date:, Message-ID:, and To: headers from the original
message should, indeed, remain exactly as they were in the original.
  -- Cos