Closed Bug 238890 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

SMTP EHLO string not always right

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Networking: SMTP, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 68877

People

(Reporter: pe1chl, Assigned: sspitzer)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

When sending mail to an SMTP server, Mozilla always sends the part after the @
in the sender's mail address as identifier in the EHLO command.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. send mail message to an account you can read
2. observe Received: headers for detailed information
3. notice the last "Received: from xxxx" where xxxx always is the sender's
address domain name

Actual Results:  
You see confusing sequences when the sender uses some company mailserver, an
extra server that relays mail to Internet, and uses their domain name when
sending messages to the world.
E.g.:

Received: from company.com by ....
Received: from mail.company.com by company.com ...
Received: from company.com by mail.company.com ....
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
this string is inserted when mail is sent from user@company.com using mozilla.
better would be if it read something like "from pc123.company.com" (the hostname
of the sending machine)


Expected Results:  
The EHLO string should be configurable, probably in the advanced tab of the SMTP
server configuration dialog.

Best would be if there are some pre-selectable options:
1. the domain name part of the mail address (current situation)
2. the hostname of this machine
3. a user-configurable name (text field)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 68877 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
V.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
The bug has been open for so long that the world (and Mozilla) has changed from
SMTP to ESMTP in the meantime, so I could not find it by searching for EHLO...
sorry.

What would it take to get things moving again?
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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