On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Mark Neidorff wrote: > >My system is working fine. I have a small annoyance...each email that I > >receive has 18 From: header lines added for no apparent reason. It > >appears that each header comes from a packet that was sent over the net > >and added as the message was put together (that is just a guess on my > >part) becuase each one has a different id. Is there a switch somewhere in > >sendmail to turn off all of those from lines? Or is it something in my > >configuration? > > > >One sample header looks like this: > > > >Received: (from root@localhost) > > by ja.justanswers.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBH826v01594 > > for mark; Wed, 10 Dec 2001 15:45:23 -0500 > > > > > Those are not "From:" headers, they are "Received:" headers and they are > required by the SMTP standard. Each machine that handles the message must > add this header. The only way to reduce their number is to simplify your > mail routing. > > Generally, this not a problem for recipients because mail clients do not > display this header by default. Some MTAs are configured to bounce > messages that have too many of these headers (sendmail defaults to 30, I > think) because that might indicate a mail loop. > > These headers are there to simplify mail troubleshooting. A mail admin can > see where the message went, and when. My recommendation is to leave this > alone unless you have a real operational reason to go into the source code > of your MTA and change it. > > Tony
Well, I don't want to change the MTA, I want to know where to look in my config for what is causing it to happen. Can you give me an idea of what to look for? thanks & Happy New Year, Mark _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
