[ale] mail headers question

[Stephan Uphoff]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 15:51, Geoffrey wrote:
> Joe Steele wrote:
> > On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
> >
> >>Geoffrey wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>So, when you say fix Mozilla....
> >>
> >>It is apparently a bug in Mozilla.  I fired up 1.6 and it does not
> >>reproduce the problem.  Lovely...
> >
> >
> > Well, current behavior is the result of "fixing" a bug, so I guess it's
> > not a bug anymore -- it's a feature.  See the following (warning:
> > long-winded discussion spanning 3+ years):
> >
> > http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68877
> 
> This is completely stupid.  The reasoning:
> 
> You shouldn't care about NAT in my opinion: A NAT user normally has an
> SMTP Server to send mail out, regardless of what helo/ehlo header is set.
> 
> What kind of bullshit is that?

I think you are misunderstanding the sentence.

This just states that your email provider should accept your email
regardless of the helo/ehelo string.
>From your initial email I understand that this is the case.

Why mindspring is refusing the email forwarded by your email
provider is another issue.

Did you retry the mindspring account with Mozilla 1.6 or did you
just check the email header?

> >
> > If you want to break the "feature" and recompile, you would probably
> > do it here:
> >
> > http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/compose/src/nsSmtpProtocol.cpp#351
> 
> 
> Or change your mail client...
> 
> Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
>                              AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995
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