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Article #482Re: rewriting to's & cc's
From: David Herron -- One of the verte...
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 21:31
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 1989 21:31
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In article <203@mirsa.inria.fr> huitema@mirsa.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) writes:
>From article <4291@viscous.sco.COM>, by stewarte@sco.COM (Stewart Evans):
>> As I understand it, it is proper for transfer agents
>> to rewrite from: fields so that they point back to
>> the sender. Is it "proper" to do the same with to:
>> and cc: fields?
>
>It is improper to rewrite any field, except perhaps the "envelope". Just
>pass the message as it is: if the originating MUA used proper domain
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, 1,000,000 times wrong
For instance, mail going from UUCP-land to RFC-land must have
the ! type addresses translated to @ type addresses before they'll
be understood by RFC-land mailers.
In general gateway machines MUST rewrite headers
I will submit that my favorite mailer, MMDF, perhaps does this too
much. But recent changes allow this to be tailored down quite a bit.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: rewriting to's & cc's Message-ID: <12226@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 20 Jul 89 21:31:11 GMT References: <4291@viscous.sco.COM> <203@mirsa.inria.fr> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 26