Agree++; X-Mailer is not intended to be user-visible. It is most often
used for readers to adjust for display quirks these days, but also to
inform MTAs of behavior quirks.
This should be the same across all instances. In fact, it probably
shouldn't be user-configurable.
On 1/3/12 10:56 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Thomas Gries<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> See also
>>
>> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/UserMailer.php?revision=104208&view=markup
>> and change line 195 $headers['X-Mailer']='MediaWiki mailer';
>> to something else
>>
>
> I don't see any reason to change that; X-Mailer is a low-level header which
> says things like "Outlook", and we would expect it to say the low-level
> software used if it's there at all. Users will never see it unless they go
> picking at the raw headers of the mail.
>
> -- brion
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