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chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:

>However, the policy that Mr. Rickert supports -- pessimistically
>rewriting all mail headers for the greatest common denominator,
>namely, stock Unix /bin/mail -- disinfranchises all those UUCP sites
>who have registered domains under the Internet DNS.

>Furthermore, 'uucpnode' may not be the final destination of the
>message.  It is not a good idea to assume anything about the final
>site based simply on the identity of the next hop in a bang path.

What we do here is that we rewrite the headers in agreement with each
uucp site connected to us (we have over 100 uucp sites connected).
We have then a collection of Sendmail mailer specifications,
indicating rewriting and other things such as character set
of the mail body. Then we use the IDA sendmail "mailertable"
file to specify in site basis these mailers. 

So we normally do quite some things to the mail itself.
We normally domainizise the uucp address - put it into proper
Intenet replyable addresses when receiving mail from a Danish uucp
site, and maybe convert headers into some bangified address when
sending mail to the uucp site. And then we convert the body to
the agreed character set, such as ASCII, Danish ASCII, ISO 8859-1,
IBM CP 850 or 60 other character sets.

Keld Simonsen