Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write?

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From: Eliot
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 1991 21:50

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chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>For the envelope (rmail argument), make it domain!path!user.  For the
>header, *don't change it*.  Remember the basic argument: the From:
>line is an RFC822 animal.  Software that parses From: must therefore
>do so by the rules of RFC822, or by definition it's broken.

Actually, I believe one point that has been made abundantly clear in
this whole discussion was that just because a header looks and smells
like an 822 header, it may not be.
-- 
Eliot Lear
[lear@turbo.bio.net]

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From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot)
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Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write?
Message-ID: <Jan.2.13.50.19.1991.24282@turbo.bio.net>
Date: 2 Jan 91 21:50:19 GMT
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