Re: Reply-To: rewrite

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From: Mark Purcell
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 15:10

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jwt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Jeffrey W. Tannehill @ Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.) once wrote....
>
>	When receiving mail via a uucp connection our mail software modifies 
>the "Reply-To:" header on the message.  For example, the header 
>
>	Reply-To: testuser@testhost.testdomain.test
>
>may be modified to be:
>
>	Reply-To: hornet!duke!testhost.testdomain.test!testuser
>

I find it a real pain in the ass the way some uucp sites will take a FQDN 
and modify
it into a mess of UUCP addressing, which may or may not make sense at the
other end.  Usually they don't make any sense.  So <replying> to mail
does not work, amongst other problems.

It's bad enough when sites munge the From: line but there is a saving
grace which is the Reply-To: header which most will not munge.  But if that
starts getting changed then there is really no hope for mail getting back.

I am of the opinion that if an address if a FQDN that it shouldn't be UUCP
munged as a FQDN should make sense from anywhere :-).

Any thoughts?

Mark

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Mark Purcell, 62/25 Market Street, SYDNEY NSW 2000.  (02) 283 5598
	Mark.Purcell@pos.pub.uu.oz.au, msp@kralizec.zeta.org.au

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From: Mark.Purcell@pos.pub.uu.oz.au (Mark Purcell)
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Subject: Re: Reply-To: rewrite
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Date: 4 Sep 92 15:10:4 GMT
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