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Re: header-munging

RANDY@mpa15ab.mv.unisys.com Thu, 26 September 1996 05:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: header-munging
In-Reply-To: Your message of "25 Sep 1996 12:19:39 -0400"
References: <199609251619.MAA41708@black-ice.cc.vt.edu>, <19960924200045.27978.qmail@koobera.math.uic.edu>
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On 25 Sep 1996 12:19:39 -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> Tell you what.. You tell me how the SMTP server at vtbit.cc.vt.edu can
> *reliably* tell what the domain name is, when 98% of the 30,000+
> pieces of mail a day it sees are from outside the vt.edu domain,

Exactly.  The current situation is that random SMTP servers take it upon
themselves to "correct" messages which are being relayed through them.

I was hoping that adding SUBMIT/RELAY to MAIL FROM (or even a different
port) would improve the situation, so that messages which are being
relayed would be so marked, and SMTP servers would stop mucking with
them.  Messages which are being submitted could be mucked with as much
as the submission handler wished.

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