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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:50:50 +0100
From:      Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
To:        Neil Darlow <neil@darlow.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why, this is new (and BAD, BAD, BAD!!) ...
Message-ID:  <20010911155050.A17392@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010911154213.A22243@router.darlow.co.uk>; from neil@darlow.co.uk on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:42:13PM %2B0100
References:  <20010911154213.A22243@router.darlow.co.uk>

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On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 03:42:13PM +0100, Neil Darlow said:
> Hi Ceri,
> 
> > My reply address is perfectly valid.
> 
> Your Reply To: address isn't the issue. Unless the envelope is
> rewritten to remove the unresolvable hostname from the sender address
> information, remote mailers will complain.
> 
> It is quite normal to strip-off the hostname for non-resolvable hosts
> e.g. I have a host ideal.darlow.co.uk on my private network which my
> local mailer config rewrites as sender@darlow.co.uk.

I know.  I already do this.
That's my point.

[ceri@cartman ceri]$ exim -brw ceri@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk
  sender: ceri@techsupport.co.uk
    from: ceri@techsupport.co.uk
      to: ceri@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk
      cc: ceri@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk
     bcc: ceri@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk
reply-to: ceri@techsupport.co.uk
env-from: ceri@techsupport.co.uk
  env-to: ceri@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk

Ceri

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