[Mailman-Users] Domain in the To: header

Brad Knowles brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Sep 24 22:39:26 CEST 2004


At 1:58 PM +0100 2004-09-24, Jolin M Warren wrote:

>  In every case I have checked, this is the address that is being entered
>  into the 'To:' field of the sender's mailer. However, some MTAs seem to
>  be automatically substituting the CNAME for the domain in the To: address,
>  so the email that arrives at my server has the To: address of:

	They are doing so correctly.  This behaviour is required by the 
RFCs.  If you don't want this done, have the name resolve directly to 
the appropriate IP address and not a CNAME alias to a different name.

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