[rt-users] Weird email issue with Outlook

[Niels Bakker]

* khera at kcilink.com (Vivek Khera) [Tue 09 Dec 2003, 16:45 CET]:
> >>>>> "RC" == Richie Crews <rcrews at intercall.com> writes:
>> rt at XXXX.com; on behalf of; systems at XXXX.com <mailto:systems at XXXX.com> 
>> This is a weird issue and only occurs on Outlook. Anyone had any
>> experience with this? The reply to line is fine but the from line just
>> comes in funny. I've tried turning off user friendly from lines and
>> still no luck.
> 
> Lookout! is being "friendly" and showing the SMTP sender envelope
> address as the sender.  As a nice side effect, all mailing list mail
> these people view also look like that, with the bounce address as the
> from and "on behalf of" the real author.  You'd think M$ would
> actually try to do the right thing, but then you'd probably expect too
> much.
> 
> There's nothing you can do about it on the sending side, since it is
> entirely a dain-bramaged display issue.

You can do something about it on the sending side - don't include a
Sender: header.  But yes, it's totally stupid for any mail user agent
to actually do something with that header.


	-- Niels.

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