Re: Antigen found =*.pif file
On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 01:14:08AM +0100, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:
> > Martin Waitz writes:
>
> >> 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. They also fix the from address so that if the message is
forwarded offsite, the reply still makes it.
> Surely it's utterly obvious that this is a bug? Are any of the faulty
> machines running Debian?
Well, it would be a bug to qualify random addresses received in headers. But
when a message comes in, when is it allowed to qualify it and when not?
This is quite old behaviour and if you try to "fix" it, I wouldn't be
surprised if a large number of programs fail.
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