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Re: Bogus reply-to



On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 03:51:15PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> hi ya jacob
> 
> On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Jacob S. wrote:
> 
> > > 	"keep it in the list <user@Mail.Linux-x-Consulting.com>"
> > 
> > That's your mail server or client changing localhost to
> > Mail.Linux-x-Consulting.com. Her Reply-To shows up as "user@localhost"
> > here on my computer.
> 
> odd that only her localhost gets converted but not my own internal 
> localhost deliveries stay as localhost ... oh well too much header
> headaches
> 
> 	- see blow .. nothing to worry about in my book ..
> 
> but than again, this is an antique pine i'm sitting on

Yep, looks like one of the links in your chain is messing with
the Reply-To when it shouldn't. See below for a header from my mua. I
double checked and it looks the same on my machine regardless of whether
I use mutt or sylpheed.

> for that particular email that has the reply going to
> "user@mail.linux-x-consulting.com" the headers looks like:
> 
> x> From bounce-debian-user=aoga=Mail.Linux-Consulting.com@lists.debian.org
> x> Return-Path: 
> <bounce-debian-user=aoga=Mail.Linux-Consulting.com@lists.debian.org>
> > Received: from murphy.debian.org (murphy.debian.org [146.82.138.6])
> ....
> x> Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
> 
> good... so far ..
> 
> x> Old-Return-Path: <debian-user@m.gmane.org>
> x> X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> x> Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249])
> ....
> x> Received: from home.bounceswoosh.org ([66.17.169.80])
> x> Received: from spam by home.bounceswoosh.org with local (Gmexim 0.1
> x> Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> x> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> x> From: "Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>
> x> Subject: Re: Bogus reply-to
> ..
> x> Reply-To: "keep it in the list" <user@Mail.Linux-x-Consulting.com>
> 
> hummm .... the mua is not supposed to change this header
> 	( i manually added the -x- for the other folks )
> 
> bad reply-to in my book .. but its not worth the time to go
> see where and why it is the way it became
> 	- my impression is the sending mua sets the "reply-to"
> 	and the receiving mua only gets to add the very first "From" line
> 
> x> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
> x> X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: home.bounceswoosh.org
> x> Mail-Copies-To: never
> x> User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux)
> x> Sender: news <news@sea.gmane.org>
> x> bunch-o-antispam-stuff

Return-Path: <bounce-debian-user=stormspotter=6texans.net@lists.debian.org>
Delivered-To: 6texans.net-stormspotter@6texans.net
Received: (qmail 11852 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2004 22:13:25 -0000
Received: from murphy.debian.org (146.82.138.6)
  by sixjs162.august.net with SMTP; 9 Aug 2004 22:13:25 -0000
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by murphy.debian.org (Postfix) with QMQP
	id 6FB7CEF6F; Mon,  9 Aug 2004 17:01:47 -0500 (CDT)
Old-Return-Path: <debian-user@m.gmane.org>
X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249])
	by murphy.debian.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F75F37C
	for <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Mon,  9 Aug 2004 15:42:25 -0500 (CDT)
Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
	id 1BuGyT-0006EX-00
	for <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:42:29 +0200
Received: from home.bounceswoosh.org ([66.17.169.80])
        by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
        id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
        for <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:42:29 +0200
Received: from spam by home.bounceswoosh.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian))
        id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00
        for <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:42:29 +0200
X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/
Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: "Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>
Subject: Re: Bogus reply-to
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:44:38 -0600
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <[🔎] slrnchfohm.n5g.spam@home.bounceswoosh.org>
References: <bunch-of-references>
Reply-To: "keep it in the list" <user@localhost>
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: home.bounceswoosh.org
Mail-Copies-To: never
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux)
Sender: news <news@sea.gmane.org>
<spam headers again>

Jacob

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