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Article #286Trouble with From: lines
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Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 16:35
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 16:35
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We are a UUCP site that is fed by an ARPA site. Incoming ARPA messages used to come to us with headers saying things like From: arpa-feed!user@arpa.site which worked fine--one could reply to it, etc. Recently this has changed (the "arpa-feed!" part isn't added), so return addresses have to be composed manually. I complained to the postmaster that this makes the From: lines unusable for sending replies. His reply was to quote from RFC 976 that any transformation from a valid domain address was forbidden, even if the address that was sent on was unusable to the recipient. He suggested upgrading our mail software. This strikes me as quite unreasonable. As far as I can see, the only genuine need in address manipulations is that any address sent to a machine must be usable by that machine. It used to work and now it doesn't. Am I being unreasonable? Dale
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!cullvax!news From: news@cullvax.UUCP (Mail and USENET News System maintenance account) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Trouble with From: lines Message-ID: <597@cullvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 11:35:27 EST Article-I.D.: cullvax.597 Posted: Wed Dec 3 11:35:27 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Dec-86 21:51:02 EST Organization: Cullinet Software, Inc., Westwood, MA Lines: 19