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Article #298Re: rmail-reply-to-sender
From: Mark Crispin
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1986 03:32
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1986 03:32
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NO!!!!! A mail composition program must NEVER, repeat, NEVER!! generate a reply to a Sender or a Return-Path. A valid From field is required in all Internet messages. The Reply-To field overrides a From for reply purposes, but that does not eliminate the need for a valid From field. Nor does the presence of Sender and Return-Path fields (neither of which have anything to do with a reply address). In this day and age when certain vendors are "certifying" their TCP/IP implementations by testing them against random Unix systems, it is vitally important that implementations which take excessive liberties with the protocols be firmly suppressed. -- Mark -- -------
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!brl-adm!adm!MRC%PANDA@sumex-aim.arpa From: MRC%PANDA@sumex-aim.arpa (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: rmail-reply-to-sender Message-ID: <871@brl-adm.ARPA> Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 22:32:28 EST Article-I.D.: brl-adm.871 Posted: Mon Nov 17 22:32:28 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Nov-86 03:23:19 EST Sender: news@brl-adm.ARPA Lines: 18