Re: Sender header?

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

* Barry Fishman <barry_fishman@acm.org>  on Thu, 24 May 2001
| My login@fqdn is "barry@ecube.local".

*snrk*.

That is not a legal fqdn, or did someone create the "local" TLD when I
blinked? :)

| The closest thing to a local mail address is my pop server address
| "barry_fishman@att.net".  I connect to the internet using a PPP
| connection PAP authentication with a variety of addresses.  At the moment
| I'm at "12.78.17.131", but this varies each call and is probably bogus
| anyway.  I send mail by direct smtp connection to mailhost.att.net.

The IP is not bogus.  The fact that AT&T has no A record for it is bogus.
That is probably a real pain when you hit an SSH server that refuses your
connection because it cannot do a reverse IP lookup.

| So what would be my properly configured sender address?  How could I
| fix my configuration to have one?  Please be specific.

There should be an A record in att.net's DNS associated with that IP, and
it should include that name in the DHCP packet it gives you when you make
your dialup connection.  Your host should set its name to the name
specified in that packet for the duration of the session.  What you do when
you are not connected is up to you.

| My gut feeling is that it is up to the smtp server on mailhost.att.net
| to provide it.  In this case I need to prevent gnus from creating one
| even though my "From:"  address does not match my login@fqdn address.

Given that att.net won't let you do things right, dumping it on them is
probably not a bad thing to do.  They've screwed it up so let them deal
with it.
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