Re: MTA and SMTP ident

[martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de (Martin Bialasinski)]

>> "GB" == George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com> writes:

GC> Is is possible that the MAIL FROM: command in the SMTP protocol is
GC> responsible, and if so, is there any way to circumvent ?
>> 
>> No, I never heared of a MTA changing the from or sender headers or
>> such. It may do checks on the headers though (I belive exim can do this).

GB> So can sendmail with the "Masquerade Envelope" feature.

Sure, right answer, wrong context.

It was about a intermediate MTA (the smarthost or such) changeing the
From: oder Sender: Header when it doesn't meet the MAIL FROM:

I would consider something like this broken.

Ciao,
	Martin