🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <8991@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>> Actually, the "From " line at the beginning of the file is a misfeature
>> (in this day and age ...
>
>Unfortunately, when Unix mail got RFC822ized (at Berkeley, I believe), it
>did not occur to the people doing it that RFC822 format and the old Unix
>format ("From " lines at the beginning) were two *different* formats and
>that they should convert between them rather than smushing them together.
>There is just no excuse for having the sender's address appear in two
>different places in two different forms.  (Well, actually, nowadays it can
>be handy to have a domainized address in "From:" and a bang form in "From ",
>but that is a kludge if there ever was one.)

I agree!  I hate those "From " lines and "remote from" lines in mail messages.
I have been giving serious thought to hacking on smail so that it removes 
those lines.  As long as we have a domain mailer, I don't care how the mail
got here. 

Of course this means that all sites that mess with the "From: " line will
have to refrain from doing this :-).

Anyone have any reasons (besides the obvious one above) as to why I should
not go ahead and do this?

Brian.

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