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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Subject: Re: Who sets Sender:?
Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 10:38:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3elg5mupl.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02May21.102035edt.119282@gateway.intersystems.com> (Stainless Steel Rat's message of "Tue, 21 May 2002 10:25:31 -0400")

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> wrote:
> Your local machine must have a fully qualified name, valid within
> the context of your firewalled network, or it cannot speak SMTP.

That's assuming that the receiving SMTP server cares what name you
give it in HELO/EHLO.  If it doesn't, then you can get away with not
having any name.

> Regardless, the Right Thing(tm) to do is to generate Sender headers
> yourself, so that the correct information is there.

Or suppress them completely, since no person or program cares whether
they're there at all.


paul



  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-21 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-20 20:19 Norman Walsh
2002-05-20 21:24 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 13:43   ` Norman Walsh
2002-05-21 14:25     ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 14:38       ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2002-05-24 22:55     ` Steinar Bang
2002-05-26 13:48     ` Barry Fishman
2002-05-26 14:33       ` Harry Putnam
2002-05-26 17:17         ` Barry Fishman
2002-05-20 22:12 ` Matt Armstrong
2002-05-21  1:58   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 14:14     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 15:04       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 15:27         ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 16:27           ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 16:56             ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 18:33               ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 18:50                 ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 19:04                   ` Matt Armstrong
     [not found]                     ` <84g00lma45.fsf@rjk.greenend.org.uk>
2002-05-21 22:07                       ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 12:05                         ` Richard Kettlewell
2002-05-21 19:46                   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 20:13                     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-21 21:16                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 21:51                         ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22  0:02                           ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 15:23                             ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 15:54                               ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 16:03                                 ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 17:04                                   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 17:25                                     ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-22 17:56                                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-22 17:38                                     ` Bjørn Mork
2002-05-22 18:04                                       ` Stainless Steel Rat
2002-05-21 17:52     ` Matt Armstrong
2002-05-21 18:48       ` Stainless Steel Rat

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