On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Ken Murchison wrote:
Any article which gets posted to Cyrus nntpd will have the post address added to the Reply-To header, and this address will be present in the article when it is transferred to the outside news peer.
I thought I raised this concern, but it may have just been a mumble to myself, something I do way too often and it gets confusing.
Anyway, yeah, I think it should be stripped before posting to peers. Even if you block it at the MTA, it'll no doubt cause confusion for those outside of your kingdom.
I finally got around to dealing with this. I just committed a patch which does the following:
- use Followup-To (if exists) instead Newsgroups when constructing Reply-To
- strip any post addresses from Reply-To when feeding the article upstream (via NNTP or SMTP)
Hopefully this will put the issue to rest. Oh, I also leave the post address unqualified (no @domain), so even if an address squeaks through, it will be useless to anyone outside your domain.
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