remail: Add X-Original-From header

The 'From:' header mangling makes it unnecessarily hard to figure out the
name and email address of the person who posted to a list.

Save the original sender in the 'X-Original-From:' header.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://wiki.ietf.org/group/dmarc/XOriginalFrom
This commit is contained in:
Thomas Gleixner 2023-06-09 23:12:58 +02:00
parent ea4b0b4632
commit 424944ad36
2 changed files with 21 additions and 6 deletions

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@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from email.generator import Generator
from email.message import Message, EmailMessage
from email.policy import EmailPolicy
from email.policy import default as DefaultPolicy
from email.headerregistry import UniqueSingleAddressHeader
import smtplib
import mailbox
@ -75,13 +76,21 @@ def msg_copy_headers(msgout, msg, headers):
if val:
msgout[key] = val
def send_mail(msg, account, mfrom, sender, listheaders, use_smtp, logger):
def send_mail(msg, account, mfrom, sender, listheaders, use_smtp, logger,
origfrom=None):
'''
Send mail to the account. Make sure that the message is correct and all
required headers and only necessary headers are in the outgoing mail.
'''
# Convert to EmailMessage with default policy (utf-8=false) so both
# Clone the default policy (utf-8=false) and map the X-Original-From
# header to UniqueSingleAddressHeader. Otherwise this is treated as
# unspecified header.
policy = DefaultPolicy.clone()
policy.header_factory.map_to_type('X-Original-From',
UniqueSingleAddressHeader)
# Convert to EmailMessage with the modified default policy so both
# smptlib.send_message() and the stdout dump keep the headers properly
# encoded.
parser = BytesFeedParser(policy=DefaultPolicy)
@ -109,6 +118,10 @@ def send_mail(msg, account, mfrom, sender, listheaders, use_smtp, logger):
msg_copy_headers(msgout, msg, ['Content-Type', 'Content-Disposition',
'Content-Transfer-Encoding',
'Content-Language'])
if origfrom:
msgout['X-Original-From'] = origfrom
msgout['Envelope-To'] = get_raw_email_addr(account.addr)
# Set unixfrom with the current date/time

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@ -86,11 +86,12 @@ class maillist(object):
self.gpg.encrypt(msg, account)
return msg
def send_encrypted_mail(self, msg_plain, account, mfrom):
def send_encrypted_mail(self, msg_plain, account, mfrom, origfrom=None):
try:
msg_out = self.encrypt(msg_plain, account)
send_mail(msg_out, account, mfrom, self.config.listaddrs.bounce,
self.config.listheaders, self.use_smtp, self.logger)
self.config.listheaders, self.use_smtp, self.logger,
origfrom)
except (RemailGPGException, RemailSmimeException) as ex:
'''
@ -243,7 +244,8 @@ class maillist(object):
msgid = msg.get('Message-Id', '<No ID>')
msgto = msg.get('To')
msgfrom = get_raw_email_addr(msg.get('From'))
origfrom = msg.get('From')
msgfrom = get_raw_email_addr(origfrom)
sinfo = sender_info(msg)
# Archive the incoming mail
@ -272,7 +274,7 @@ class maillist(object):
for account in dest.accounts.values():
if not account.enabled:
continue
self.send_encrypted_mail(msg_plain, account, mfrom)
self.send_encrypted_mail(msg_plain, account, mfrom, origfrom)
return True
def handle_log(self):