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?

thanks

Gv

That's by design.

If it's a home computer, you could change the computer name to something
obscure. Although in most cases it's already something suitably vague
or generic so that it isn't revealing any personal information about it.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Giovanni" wrote in message
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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?

thanks

Gv

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) with login)
| by smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2006 18:51:41 -0000
| Message-ID:

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:

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.

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