On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:19:45 +1000 Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> wrote: > > >> 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.
In that case, the mail message should *never* leave the local domain. > They also fix the from address so that if the message is > forwarded offsite, the reply still makes it. Still makes it where? In my case, the message originated in a university in the US, but the MTA there didn't add its domain. Then it appeared in my mailbox as coming from my ISP's domain, so if I reply to it, it'll get nowhere near its original sender. I agree this *has* to be a bug. Relaying MTAs should not take over important mail headers, that's dangerously close to mail forgery... -- Carlos Sousa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
