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Article #2397Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write?
From: Chip Salzenberg
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 22:08
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 22:08
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According to les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell): >Even smail3 will mung the the header lines by prepending its own >uucp name if they are already in "!" notation. I ripped this part >out because someone is likely to reverse user@domain into RFC976'ish >domain!user when they pass the message off to uucp mailers. Of course, if a header field contains user@valid.domain.name, then any mailer mangling that header field into valid.domain.name!user is being Evil and Rude. In any case, you're quite right; Smail 3's behavior in prepending its host name is also Evil and Rude, and should be stopped forthwith. Perhaps a public patch posting would be appropriate. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip> "What's that thing, when people die, they take apart the body to see why?" -- St. Theresa of the Net
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write? Message-ID: <27640773.18BB@tct.uucp> Date: 10 Dec 90 22:08:50 GMT References: <1CE00001.p376wj@tbomb.ice.com> <1990Dec07.180618.16744@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 17