Re: [off topic] Mail with no destination?
>>>>> "BL" == Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net> writes:
BL> I am assuming that there must still be enough 'broken' mail
BL> servers "out there" that it is still possible to move mail that
BL> is not RFC compliant but I am totally mystified as to how a
BL> message that has no destination can be forwarded by any mail
BL> server!?
This "routing" information has nothing to do with a To: or Cc: or similar
header. Try "telnet localhost smtp" and enter "help".
A sample "mailsession" could be:
220-haitech.martin.home Smail-3.2.0.101 (#2 1998-Mar-18) ready at Sun, 17 May 1998 18:21:21 +0200 (CEST)
220 ESMTP supported
HELO localhost
250 haitech.martin.home Hello localhost (localhost from address [127.0.0.1]).
MAIL FROM: martin@localhost
250 martin@localhost ... Sender Okay
RCPT TO: martinb@localhost
250 'martinb@localhost' <martinb@(nodomain)> Recipient Okay.
DATA
354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
Hi,
no Headers here. Usualy, the first lines are the To and From etc. headers
(seperated by a blank line from the messagebody) you see in your mail
programm.
.
250 Mail accepted
QUIT
221 haitech.martin.home closing connection
Well, almost no header. Smail will insert some headers, but maybe your ISP's
daemon doesn't. Here is what smail inserts:
>From martin@localhost Sun May 17 18:29:49 1998
Return-Path: <martin@localhost>
Received: from localhost (really [127.0.0.1]) by netcologne.de
via in.smtpd with smtp
id <m0yb6Jd-0003hhC@haitech.martin.home> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101)
for martinb@localhost; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:29:37 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <m0yb6Jd-0003hhC@haitech.martin.home>
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 18:29:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: martin@localhost
Apparently-To: martinb@localhost
You don't even have these? Post the headers you got and do a
telnet mailhost.isp.com smtp to get the 220 welcome-message. This should
show the brand and version of your isp's mailserver.
Ciao,
Martin
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