On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 12:03:41AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> matti.aarnio@zmailer.org said:
> > Actually not. Either your MTA, or your MUA did that.
> > I got:
> > From: J. I.
> > This particular detail -- when to add canonical domain to e.g. From:
> > address, and when not -- is implemented rather fuzzily usually..
>
> I'm in the "if it arrives unqualified by SMTP from !localhost, reject it"
> camp. I certainly can't think of a single case where it's appropriate to
> accept it _and_ qualify it with the local domain in that case.
I didn't look for what it was at the SMTP level while
incoming, but RFC 821 (SMTP) is the transport method, and
VGER won't accept unqualified ( + a few more rules )
What you are saying is that RFC 822 level (visible headers)
should be controlled for something ?
I have a surprise for you, RFC 822 data carries only incidental
resemblance with the message content and destination.
Like now, you (dwmw2) get this message twice: once from me
which means the "From:" might even carry some resemblance
to the sender (yes, resemblance, it isn't my login-id, just
my email address), the second one comes via the list, and
the Majordomo won't change the From: to be
linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
which is the real sender in that case...
... and this is completely off topic ...
> --
> dwmw2
/Matti Aarnio
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