>>>>> "BL" == Bill Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Sender Okay
RCPT TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
250 '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 17 18:29:49 1998
Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Received: from localhost (really [127.0.0.1]) by netcologne.de
via in.smtpd with smtp
id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Debian Smail3.2.0.101)
for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 17 May 1998 18:29:37 +0200 (CEST)
Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 18:29:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apparently-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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