Re: Help/Info on E-Mail Headers

[Richard Hector <rhector@actrix.gen.nz>]

"Donald R. Spoon" wrote:
> 
> An earlier post "mail headers - why do they differ? Sam Varghese "
> caused me to do a bit of investigation here, and I noted the same thing
> happening on my posts to this group.  Since I don't have an MTA setup to
> pass my E-Mail on to the internet, I use the Road Runner SMTP & POP
> servers for all my external E-Mail MTA needs.  I noticed that their
> servers were making "SENDER" line that was composed of my LAN username +
> the host name of the (supposed) SMTP server.  You can probably see it on
> this post, where "dad" is the username only on my LAN.
> 
> Now here comes the interesting part.  It only does this when I use the
> Netscape E-Mail client!  It doesn't do this with KMAIL or OUTLOOK
> (blush).  So it appears that Netscape is doing something that the other
> clients are not doing....or vice-versa, maybe.  I have searched through
> all the config options that I can find in Netscape, but I can't see
> anything that seems to be wrong.
> 
> Does anyone know of a config option that would change this behavior, OR
> is it possible to make another E-Mail client the default mailer whenever
> I am using Netscape??  (Like Kmail).

I had this problem a while ago. I asked someone (I can't remember who -
might have been Netscape tech support), got an answer, and it fixed it.
I've found this file called "ns.fix" in my home directory, which I
obviously copied there from an email. I think it's the right one, but I
won't guarantee it :-)

    Edit the two .js files in your .netscape directory (liprefs.js and
    preferences.js) to include the function call:

    user_pref("mail.suppress_sender_header", true);

    BTW, the binary includes a comment which says that this is only
    necessary on Unix.

My setup currently includes those settings, and I'm not having the
problem.

Hope that helps :-)

Richard