On 2002-06-13, Alain Bench wrote: > Hello Christoph, > > On Thursday, June 13, 2002 at 10:23:01 AM +0300, Christoph Bugel wrote: > > > I found that my local mbox files contain lots of headers of the form > > In-reply-to: <"from userxyz"@host> > > Do you have an MTA called "iPlanet Messaging Server" in the path > between the list robot and you?
yep! much of my mail goes through this somewhere on the way (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 0.3 (built May 13 2002)) some mailing lists I receive come though that ISP (NetVision) I already noticed that the headers are bad when the mail is still inside the POP3 account on my ISP. > Humm! Nothing sure, really only a weak hypothesis: One or more silly > SMTP relays don't pass mails like they are, only adding a "Received:" > field at top, but interpret and rewrite headers. This results in some > minor (but yet annoying) change in nature and amount of spaces and tabs, > case of names, field order, etc... and also this IRT content rewriting > when it contained something else then just an ID. This iPlanet is one of > these idiotic servers. </hypothesis>. sounds *very* plausible to me!
