I would like to see a header Sender-Addressed-To: <orig. To-address>

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2 total messages Started by Werner Uhrig Tue, 25 Oct 1988 17:54

#623

Author: Werner Uhrig
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1988 17:54

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incoming mail arrives on my machine with a To-address which no longer
contains the information of how the sender had originally addressed me,
as the intermediate sites often modify the To-address as the mail gets
passed on from site to site.

I wished all mail would arrive with a header:

X-Sent-To: <original To-address used>
X-CCed-To: <original CC-address>
..etc..

as this is often the only way I can understand and comment on addressing
problem the sender might be having.  Often the CC-addresses arrive here
mangled, as some sites along the way modify them, but others don't,
leaving me to try to hand-knit addresses before I can send a REPLY (to) ALL

has this been discussed before?  has anyone implemented such?
(I might as well start configuring our sendmail.cf do that to encourage
others to follow ...)


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Re: I would like to see a header Sender-Addressed-To: <orig. To-address>

#625

Author: Brian Kantor
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1988 22:40

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I've added the following to our sendmail.cf so that we'll add some
useable addressing info as the mail passes through us; what we do is add
the delivery address we see to the Received line.  That won't do all
that Werner suggested, but it is a help.

HReceived: $?sfrom $s $.by $j ($v/$V)$?r via $r$.;
	$b id $i for $u
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	Brian Kantor	UCSD Office of Academic Computing
			Academic Network Operations Group  
			UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
			brian@ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN@UCSD

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