[pmmail-list] HELO - Not...Re: Another new beta 2627 posted

[L.Willms]

On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:05:27 -0400, Rich wrote:

> On the bright side, I may have just solved one of my complaints with PMMail. 
> All I have to do is rename my computer to "Preferred Customer" and 
> I'll just look like one of the millions of Dell machines on the net ;-)

  Well you don't. Here's what your PC looks like in the "Received:" Header 
before your change: 

--- cut ------
Received: from unknown (HELO ) ([209.130.221.78])
          (envelope-sender <rich@bearlycomputing.com>)
          by relay04.roc.frontiernet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
          for <pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com>; 5 Sep 2002 02:52:31 
-0000
------- cut off -------

   and after: 

---------- cut ----------
Received: from unknown (HELO ) ([209.130.218.239])
          (envelope-sender <rich@bearlycomputing.com>)
          by relay04.roc.frontiernet.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
          for <pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com>; 5 Sep 2002 15:08:06 
-0000
--------------- cut off ----

   So there is not a big change, isn't it? Obviously the first relaying 
SMTP-Server checks the address and domain name given on the HELO command, and 
amends it correspondingly. 

   The following is from my previous message in this thread: 

---- cut --------------
Received: from p3e9ead3c.dip.t-dialin.net ([62.158.173.60] helo=tsat510)
	by mail01.ims-firmen.de with asmtp (Exim 4.10)
	id 17mrmd-0004OD-00
	for pmmail-list@blueprintsoftwareworks.com; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 10:14:35 
+0200
--------- cut off -----

   You see, that it records the domain name given on the HELO statement which 
is the name I gave to my PC (tsat510), and it inserts the IP address assigned 
dynamically by my ISP and its corresponding host name registered in the 
publich Domain Name System. This did not happen in your case, since the 
addresses assigned to your PC by your ISP are not registered in the DNS. 

Yours, 
Lüko Willms
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Frankfurt/Main  

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