On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 01:14:08AM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Martin Waitz writes: > > >> i guess antigen didn't specify any @ in From:, and the other mta's > >> filled in their own name for some reason... > > > > That's the default behavior of all MTA's I'm familiar with. > > Some MTAs do indeed qualify random unqualified addresses they find > with their own mail domain name.
The reason is so the you can type mail <username> and have it end up at the right place. i.e. you don't need to know the mail domain to send a mail to the local user. They also fix the from address so that if the message is forwarded offsite, the reply still makes it. > Surely it's utterly obvious that this is a bug? Are any of the faulty > machines running Debian? Well, it would be a bug to qualify random addresses received in headers. But when a message comes in, when is it allowed to qualify it and when not? This is quite old behaviour and if you try to "fix" it, I wouldn't be surprised if a large number of programs fail. -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > Canada, Mexico, and Australia form the Axis of Nations That > Are Actually Quite Nice But Secretly Have Nasty Thoughts About America -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
