Howdy,

is it possible to have qmail just remove the offending "Sender:"
field from all outgoing emails??


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Peter Samuel wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, montgomery f. tidwell wrote:
> 
> > Howdy,
> >
> > i just noticed that mail sent out by my qmail server does
> > not put my domain in to the Sender: field. it is going
> > out as "Sender: mtidwell" and not "Sender:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> > like it should.
> >
> > what have i done wrong??
> 
> Chosen to use Netscape as your MUA.
> 
> This is a known problem with Netscape and has nothing to do with
> qmail. Normally it isn't a problem as well behaved MUAs will not use the
> Sender: field to generate a reply address, but unfortunately some broken
> systems do (I don't know off hand which ones they are). If the Sender:
> field is not fully qualified, this leads to the local MTA trying to
> deliver the message to:
> 
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> instead of
> 
>     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> --
> Regards
> Peter
> ----------
> Peter Samuel                            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 
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