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Article #470Re: RFC976 vs. the real world...
From: Phil Trubey
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1987 22:50
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1987 22:50
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In article <18533@amdahl.amdahl.com> tron@uts.amdahl.com (Ronald S. Karr) writes: >To summarize: should From: header fields in the form: > > From: jqp@localhost.UUCP (J. Q. P.) > >be the preferred, or only, form for sites which are in the UUCP zone >but are not in a registered domain? Or should it be possible, or >preferred for such sites to use: > > From: localhost!jqp (J. Q. P.) > >instead? Have it as a configuration option when the person is building your system from the source. I wish SMAIL allowed this! You can include guidelines for people to follow when choosing which From: header scheme to use. By the way, anybody know how to contort SMAIL so that it generates proper (ie domain style) From: lines?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!clan!ptrubey From: ptrubey@clan.UUCP (Phil Trubey) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: RFC976 vs. the real world... Message-ID: <328@clan.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 87 22:50:46 GMT Article-I.D.: clan.328 Posted: Wed Dec 9 17:50:46 1987 References: <18533@amdahl.amdahl.com> Reply-To: ptrubey@clan.UUCP (Phil Trubey) Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 22