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In article <471@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM> brian@ncrcan.Toronto.NCR.COM (Brian Onn) writes:
>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?

At least one From_ line is necessary at the beginning of a mail message
for the normal mailbox format.  The first one (without the '>') is used
to denote the start of a mail message in a mailbox file.  This convention
is used by /bin/mail, mailx, elm, etc.  If you are willing to use a
different scheme such as that used by MH then getting rid of the From_
lines might be reasonble.  As it it you'd just be cutting your throat.

I have to agree that there can be too many From_ lines.  The solution is
to let smail (i.e. the message tranport agent) collapse all the From_
lines to a single line.  Smail has supported this from at least version 1.3.
In smail2.5 the function rline() is defined at line 373 of the file
headers.c; this function collapses all the From_ lines into a single
line and also removes redundant host information.

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