From: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
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To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
Cc: | PostgreSQL www <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: "Extern" on email address |
Date: | 2016-06-06 20:16:54 |
Message-ID: | 20160606201654.GA25696@momjian.us |
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 06:12:04PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> OK, odd, it didn't happen this time. I guess I will just wait for it to
> happen again.
>
>
>
> Well, your MUA put it there :)
>
> I guess it did so because the MUA of Albe Laurenz did it first at https://
> www.postgresql.org/message-id/
> A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B53859B69%40ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at - but
> only in the To field. I guess your MUA must've copied it from the to field when
> you did reply. Which is a very strange thing to do, but that's what it looks
> like to me.
It must be some Mutt thing. I see it happened to 'David G. Johnston' in
this email too, but I am also in the "To:" field (also odd), but didn't
get EXTERN.
> 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?
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