Re: my computer name sent in email?

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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 17:13:21 GMT, Giovanni wrote:

hello, in looking at email headers from my mail sent by OE6, it appears my
computer name is appended to a header called "message-ID".

is there anyway to disable or change this feature?

Not that I know of. Well, maybe, sort of. Do you have a router? If not,
there is nothing that you can do. If so, you might be able to affect a
slight change.

Be advised, though; when MS Outlook Express initiates an SMTP session
with your message submission (SMTP) server, it will still use your
computer name for the SMTP "EHLO" command. Here are two examples:

Exhibit A:

| Received: from unknown (HELO megumi) (hard2findanamenotused@xxxxxxxxxxxx with login)
| by smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2006 18:51:41 -0000
| Message-ID: <002601c6d9c1$23d4c520$1f66a8c0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Exhibit B:

| Received: from megumi (192.168.102.31) by aosake.net (Mercury/32 v4.01b) with ESMTP ID MG000023;
| 16 Sep 2006 12:00:32 -0700
| Message-ID: <004501c6d9c2$62371e20$1f66a8c0@xxxxxxxxxx>

Exhibit A was sent through a message submission server,
"smtp.pacbell.yahoo.com". That server stamped the header lines shown,
with the computer name and the IP address of the connecting computer (a
router).

Exhibit B was sent through a message submission server, "Megumi". That
server stamped the header lines shown, with the computer name, and the
IP address of the connecting computer (which is behind the router).

The "Message_ID" was formed from the domain identified in "ipconfig". My
"ipconfig" output looks like this:


|Windows IP Configuration
|
| Host Name . . . . . . . . . : MEGUMI.aosake.net

This "trick" _requires_ a router which can be configured with a domain
name. Even so, there is no way that I know of to change the behavior of
MSOE when it issues the SMTP "EHLO" command.

--
Norman
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.

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