Re: [Nmh-workers] how to have "Date:" header field added to message when posting mail directly via SMTP ?

[=JeffH]

Ok, thanks to both Anders & Ken for their kind responses.

I've done some more thorough investigation and am really puzzled wrt what is 
going on. The initial debugging I'd done with the level 2 d00d at the hosting 
provider had seemed to indicate that the nmh toolchain (perhaps) wasn't 
inserting Date: into the outgoing message (i.e. when supplying the data 
following issuing the DATA smtp command).

So I got myself libnet-smtp-server-perl and hacked up the example perl script 
that instantiates a simple smtp server such that it'd echo to the terminal 
whatever a smtp client sends it, and here's what I see..


> sudo /usr/local/bin/smtp-testing-server.pl

==================== inbound msg received ====================
Envelope-from-to:
From: <address@hidden>
To:   address@hidden
--

X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 (debian 1:2.7.2-7) with nmh-1.1
Subject: test
To: address@hidden
cc: address@hidden
From: address@hidden
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:55:48 -0700

test
--

..so it looks to me like exmh+nmh is doing the right thing in terms of the 
headers that it is inserting, and indeed, I did the 
manually-telnet-to-the-smtp-server-thing, pasting the above message verbatim 
into my dialog with the server (i.e. as the "value" for DATA), and it sent it 
just fine.

Additionally, I've figured out this morning that the server isn't objecting to 
sending messages to other addresses at my own domain, so I'm thinking that they 
have imposed some sort of anti-relaying policy on my account, even though I 
explicitly asked the level-2 d00d about that and he said "nope".

So I'm not sure what's going on, but this is straying off-topic for this list.

thanks in any case,

=JeffH