Re: [tlug] Making sure people get the message

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

Godwin, Stephen, Jim,

Thank you all for your advice.

It was a good idea to tell me to look at the headers in more detail. 
However, my newbie eyes aren't quite as discerning about what is right, 
wrong, and how to fix issues.

If it's okay, I'd like to show you guys the headers from a typical email 
generated by one of my PHP scripts. This one is from a street hockey 
group I run. It's very short, I think so hopefully not too troublesome.

I notice a couple of things that are probably not good. For example, the 
"return-path" has an ominous sounding "nobody@example.com".

I don't quite understand why it says "Received: from nobody" when the 
"From" header has "info@example.com".

As far as fixing things, do these issues represent server settings I 
should change? Or is it just a case of me forcing certain header 
specifications in my PHP script? Wouldn't that latter option count as 
"munging" the headers?

X-Account-Key: account5
X-UIDL: UID497-1152485402
X-Mozilla-Status: 0001
X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
Return-path: <nobody@example.com>
Envelope-to: info@example.com
Delivery-date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:22:42 -0700
Received: from nobody by server.gutteridge.info with local (Exim 4.52)
   id 1GJzQQ-0005pA-Mz
   for info@example.com; Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:22:42 -0700
To: info@example.com
Subject: TSHA Street Hockey Report for Monday 4th September 2006
From: info@example.com
Message-Id: <E1GJzQQ-0005pA-Mz@example.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:22:42 -0700

Last question:

I know not putting HTML is good, but when it comes to plain text, is 
UTF-8 encoded Japanese okay?

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Dave M G
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