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

[James Pittman]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Jeff Bastian wrote:


> > This is really weird, Jeff.  I'm going to send to you the message I

> > bounced to my yahoo account along with its full header as an

> > attachment to the next message.  I don't see why it is doing this to

> > you and not to me. It seems familiar to me, though, like I was having

> > this kind of problem once, but it might have been something different,

> > like changing my email address in Alpine without registering it on

> > Gmail.



> > So, when you bounce the message, what address are you bouncing from?

> > I think it has to be one of the addresses registered with your gmail

> > account or you'll have a problem -- maybe that's what's happening.



> I'm just using my normal gmail address, no aliases or anything fancy

> like Google Apps.



> Maybe some of their SMTP servers have different configurations?  I

> noticed alpine flashed in the status bar that it was going through

> 1e100.net (some of Google's new servers are in this domain now).  Maybe

> 1e100.net does things slightly differently?  I'm just speculating now...


Could it be your ISP forcing an SMTP server on one of you? I think I've
heard of this in the past, whereby any connection on the SMTP port is
redirected to the ISP's server, regardless of what address you specify.