Re: [cobalt-developers] sendmail config / empty recipients field

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"your-web.ch (Neeser Allen)" wrote:

> I would like, that when our Mailserver a email is receiving, that it not write
> automatic our Mailserver-Domain into a empty To: field.
> That the Server will only write "Undisclosed-Recipient", or
> "Undisclosed-Recipient:@the-mailserver-which-the-mail-come-from.com", or let the
> field empty.

Your RaQ IS leaving the field empty.  To prove it I just sent myself an
email without a "To:" field.

Here are ALL the headers:

> Received: from elijah.nobaloney.net (elijah.nobaloney.net [216.36.116.98] (may be forged))
> 	by ns1.ns-one.net (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id fALMkW619603
> 	for <jlasman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:46:32 -0800
> Received: from nobaloney.net ([192.168.0.101]) by elijah.nobaloney.net
>           with SMTP (Mailtraq/2.0.0.1233) id ELJH3198ABAD
>           for jlasman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:50:30 -0800
> Message-ID: <3BFC2FB3.8904A9E1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:50:27 -0800
> From: Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Organization: nobaloney.net
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win98; U)
> X-Accept-Language: en,en-US
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Subject: test of missing to: field
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Hops: 1
> X-UIDL: YaX"!*[-"!]5E!!9'?"!

> But not "Undisclosed-Recipient:@ourserver.com", because our customers will make
> us responsible for this Spam, because there see our mailserver in the to: field
> and thinking it is a Mailinglist on our Mailserver.

I'd bet the customer's email client is adding the field.  Outlook
Express comes to mind <frown>.

> An other Solution is, when our Mailserver emails which have in the Header a
> empty to: field, wouldn't receive them and send back as error.

You can create a filter in procmail; I wouldn't recommend it, though;
you'll bounce a lot of good email, including all email from lists like
this one.

Jeff
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