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Re: `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)




I wrote:

> But I still get messages from the Debian mailing list that fail 
> these tests from:
> 
>  Colin Telmer <telmerco@telmer.com>
>  "Rev. Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@earthlink.net>
>  Martin Schulze <joey@kuolema.Infodrom.North.DE>
> 
> However, the full headers don't look like they came from the mailing list!
> There's no X-Mailing-List line at all!

"Rev. Joseph Carter" replied

> This message has the headers:
> 
> From: "Rev. Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@earthlink.net>
> To: Debian Users Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Subject: Re: `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)
> Reply-To:
> In-Reply-To: <199804231412.KAA13551@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>; from Peter S
> Galbraith on Thu, Apr 23, 1998 at 10:12:20AM -0400
> X-Operating-System: Linux icarus2 2.1.96
> 
> You should not get this message except to the list.  And if you do get
> it, I have no idea why...

Here's the header I got... Still no "X-" lines and no reply to.

Return-Path: knghtbrd@earthlink.net 
Return-Path: <knghtbrd@earthlink.net>
Received: from lauimls09.qc.dfo.ca (root@mixing.qc.dfo.ca [142.130.48.235])
	by mixing.qc.dfo.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA19187
	for <galbraith@mixing.qc.dfo.ca>; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:14:52 -0400
Received: from 142.130.21.130 by msg2.dfo-mpo.gc.ca with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.0.1458.49)
	id JQRWBRSH; Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:18:19 -0400
Received: (qmail 18239 invoked by uid 38); 24 Apr 1998 00:14:18 -0000
Received: (qmail 18213 invoked from network); 24 Apr 1998 00:14:15 -0000
Received: from 1cust197.tnt6.krk1.da.uu.net (HELO icarus2.dyn.ml.org) (qmailr@208.254.6.197)
  by murphy.novare.net with SMTP; 24 Apr 1998 00:14:15 -0000
Received: (qmail 1800 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Apr 1998 00:14:11 -0000
Message-ID: <"OvBY4B.A.0cE.al9P1"@murphy>
From: "Rev. Joseph Carter" <knghtbrd@earthlink.net>
To: Debian Users Mailing List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: `From' line (Re: exim & mutt, weird)
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:14:11 -0400
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
	boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BD6F15.F84D00F0"

Is it correct that mailers aren't supposed to change the header line 
except to add `Received' line?

I assume that my `corporate' NT servers between my Debian box and the
debian mailing lists server is at fault.  Now, who do I convince them
of that!?

Peter


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