Re: "Extern" on email address - Mailing list pgsql-www

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: "Extern" on email address
Date
Msg-id 14068.1465244719@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: "Extern" on email address  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
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Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> On Mon, Jun  6, 2016 at 06:12:04PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
>> Adding "extern" is something I've seen more and more organizations do to any
>> address that's not from their own company, to make it less likely that people
>> send emails to the wrong place. It's quite annoying, but understandable. The
>> real weirdness is why your MUA is copying it to the From field. Perhaps yo
>> uhave set something up as part of dealing with multiple email addresses?

> Yes, odd.  Should we strip it on our end?

Even if we did that today, we'd have to undo it in a month or so, because
header-munging is doomed.  See previous discussion of not falling foul of
DKIM signatures.

(Hey infra guys, when are you making that change anyway?)
        regards, tom lane



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