Re: Your response is requested

[Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>]

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