[cse491] From address fail

Jack Carlson carls296 at msu.edu
Mon Sep 28 18:20:11 PDT 2009


Ahh, thanks, got it.

Does anyone know what the MAIL FROM line is actually for, then?

-Jack

On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Joe Amenta wrote:

> That field is actually filled in by a header in the actual DATA  
> section.  The "MAIL FROM" line is different.
>
> This page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail#Header_fields gives  
> you a short overview of some of the data that should be included if  
> you want an e-mail like that to look "normal" and pass spam filters.
>
> --Joe
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Jack Carlson <carls296 at msu.edu>  
> wrote:
> Anyone else have an issue setting the "from" field for the spambot?
> The server tells me it's working (my debugging output shows:
>
> Setting mail sender...
> 250 OK
>
> so the server says it got my MAIL FROM: command)
>
> BUT when I get the email, there is no sender set--the field is totally
> blank in my email client.  Everything else is working fine, so I'm a
> bit confused as to what's going on.  Any thoughts would be
> appreciated :)
>
> -Jack
>
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