[ On Fri, January 2, 1998 at 10:13:34 (+0000), Philip Hazel wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [EXIM] Received-Format not compliant to RFC 822?
>
> The simplest change, of course, would be to enclose the IP address in
> parentheses, so that you get ([1.2.3.4]) instead of just [1.2.3.4]. If
> this were done to sender_fullhost, it would add only 2 bytes per message
> to the log. The variations would be
That's effectively what I've done for the default header in smail.
I went to extremes with the smail default, putting all the info I had
available into the header when possible.
> H=a.b.c.d ([1.2.3.4]) Host name verified by reverse lookup; HELO
> name is the same as host name (or no HELO).
Yes, this is what I do.
> H=[1.2.3.4] No reverse lookup; no HELO.
(not possible in smail!)
> H=(a.b.c.d) [1.2.3.4] No reverse lookup; HELO = a.b.c.d.
>
> H=a.b.c.d (x.y.z) ([1.2.3.4]) Reverse lookup gave a.b.c.d; HELO was
> x.y.z. I guess the two parenthesized
> bits could be amalgamated into one:
> H=a.b.c.d (x.y.z [1.2.3.4])
I do:
H=x.y.z (a.b.c.d [1.2.3.4])
because that makes more sense with the true IP and PTR result together
in the comment and the HELO text always in the "from" parameter.
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