[ale] mail headers question

[Geoffrey]

Joe Steele wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 25, 2004, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>
>>>So, when you say fix Mozilla....
>>
>>It is apparently a bug in Mozilla.  I fired up 1.6 and it does not
>>reproduce the problem.  Lovely...
> 
> 
> Well, current behavior is the result of "fixing" a bug, so I guess it's 
> not a bug anymore -- it's a feature.  See the following (warning: 
> long-winded discussion spanning 3+ years):
> 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68877

This is completely stupid.  The reasoning:

You shouldn't care about NAT in my opinion: A NAT user normally has an 
SMTP Server to send mail out, regardless of what helo/ehlo header is set.

What kind of bullshit is that?

> 
> If you want to break the "feature" and recompile, you would probably 
> do it here:
> 
> http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/mailnews/compose/src/nsSmtpProtocol.cpp#351


Or change your mail client...

Thanks for the pointer.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey       Registered Linux User #108567
                             AT&T Certified UNIX System Programmer - 1995