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Article #697Re: Replacing colons with periods in To-addresses
From: Amanda Walker
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 02:21
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 1990 02:21
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In article <155@fts1.UUCP>, michael@fts1.UUCP (Michael Richardson) writes: > I'd really like to know why uunet insists on playing with the the > internal (not envelope) From: and To: at all! (Usually deleting the > (name) portion of the From: so that I may have an address but no name > to associate it with...) As I understand it, uunet's sendmail.cf rewrites domain-style addresses into bang paths whenever it thinks it's talking to a site that only understands UUCP mail, whether that site in fact does or not. A while back I asked much the same question and they said, "Oh, we'll change you from UUCP to INTERNET" or some such. Since then, no more header munging. Perhaps some site along the way is mistakenly listed as UUCP-style... -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation "Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view." --Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Return of the Jedi"
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Replacing colons with periods in To-addresses Message-ID: <1990Mar13.022102.14408@intercon.com> Date: 13 Mar 90 02:21:02 GMT References: <18538.25edbe1d@ccavax.camb.com> <155@fts1.UUCP> Sender: gaige@intercon.com (Gaige B. Paulsen) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Sterling, VA Lines: 19