[Alpine-info] bouncing emails changes From and Date headers

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Jeffrey Bastian wrote:


> On 04/06/2010 03:07 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

> > It's the IMAP server making the changes? and not the SMTP server?

> > 

> > It wouldn't surprise me to find that the SMTP server would munge the 

> > From header, but it seems an odd chain for the IMAP server to do so.

> 

> 

> I'm sorry if I wasn't clear.  I'm accessing gmail via Google's IMAP 

> and SMTP servers, so it's likely smtp.gmail.com that's munging the 

> headers when I bounce a message.

> 

> I just tried bouncing an email on Gmail IMAP through a different SMTP 

> server and the From and Date headers were preserved as expected.

> 

> I'll report this to Google.


Ha. :-)

Good luck with that.  Googling:

Gmail on behalf of

came up with Google's "solution" for preventing the annoying "Sent on 
Behalf of" problem (because they won't alter the "Sender:" header):  
enabling external SMTP.

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Message-Delivery-en/browse_thread/thread/f651cb1db5d9dd23/394ac4678b5e7be7

(via http://lifehacker.com/5326947/gmail-removes-on-behalf-of-for-real-this-time )

-- 
Best,
Ben