On 4 Jan 00 at 9:45, arachne-digest wrote:
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have used Net Mail DOS 2.00, haven't used 2.12 yet. If you put the wrong date
> in the .TXT file, would the server place its date/time in the headers? I didn't
You can put just about anything you want into the "Date" line of an email
msg. Of course, if your recipient likes to sort msgs by date, he will
appreciate having the correct one.
If you send an email with no "Date:" header line at all, then the smtp
server will insert one with its current date and time.
("Message-ID" is another one like that: you can put anything you want, or
you can leave it out and one of the mail servers that the msg travels
through will insert it.)
> notice that aspect. But the To-address in the .WRK file determines the
> recipient, and it is thereby possible to send a message that goes through
> without a To: line, or with the wrong address in the To: line. I could put the
> correct address in the .WRK file, have a line To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the
> message would show a line To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] but would go to the address
> specified in the .WRK file. I once mistyped the second "arachne", and people on
> this list wondered how a message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] found its way to the
> list.
Some smtp clients, including Arachne, read the RFC822 header to determine
the recipient addresses that will be passed to the smtp host. Others such
as NetMail, get them from a different source. Both methods seem to get
the job done. What's important is that either way, the msg gets to where
it's supposed to go.
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