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Article #4197Re: whether to prefix myhost! onto the From: or not..
From: der Mouse
Date: Fri, 01 May 1987 06:28
Date: Fri, 01 May 1987 06:28
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In article <3546@cbosgd.ATT.COM>, mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes: > The only implementations that prepend myhost! on the From: line are > 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD. [...] 4BSD doesn't if you run smail. Smail uses sendmail, right? How does smail persuade sendmail to put different things in the From_ and From: lines? I never managed to make sendmail change the From_ line without changing the From: line at the same time. > All the standards (822, 976) explicitly say you leave the From: line > in domain format - it is not and was never a bang path. What if it isn't in domain format originally? What happens to mail that was really truly sent to a bang address? > Almost nobody updates the From: line, and those that do only do so > because they installed the 4.2 or 4.3 tape and haven't fixed it. (An > easy fix is to install smail.) Where do we get a fix to just this problem, without dragging in all the rest of smail? der Mouse (mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!styx!ames!necntc!linus!philabs!micomvax!musocs!mcgill-vision!mouse From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: whether to prefix myhost! onto the From: or not.. Message-ID: <749@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-May-87 02:28:42 EDT Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.749 Posted: Fri May 1 02:28:42 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 17:46:52 EDT References: <16238@amdcad.AMD.COM> <3546@cbosgd.ATT.COM> Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 25