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Article #5166Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart
From: Kurt Shoens
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 07:34
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1989 07:34
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In article <885@ur-cc.UUCP> msir@cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) writes about how UCB Mail rewrites addresses when doing reply. In particular, unqualified addresses (those that do not include "@host") get the host of the From: field tacked on today. Mark indicates that this behavior is causing him problems and isn't necessary since all addresses in messages from other sites are supposed to be qualified with the hostname. Sounds like Mark is right. At the time UCB Mail was written, there WAS no sendmail to rewrite outgoing addresses, so it was felt necessary to do the editing on reply that is now causing the troubles. I doubt that anything will break if Mark disables the address rewriting, as long as all mail from outside the local host has qualified, internet style addresses. In terms of the Right Thing thing, it feels wrong to me to have both sendmail and Mail rewriting addresses; UCB Mail should stop doing so. Kurt Shoens, IBM Almaden Research Center, ...!uunet!ibmarc!kurt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!ibmarc!kurt From: kurt@ibmarc.uucp (Kurt Shoens) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart Summary: UCB Mail should stop rewriting addresses Keywords: UCB Mail, sendmail, address rewriting Message-ID: <701@ks.UUCP> Date: 22 Feb 89 07:34:16 GMT References: <885@ur-cc.UUCP> <888@ur-cc.UUCP> Sender: news@ibmarc.UUCP Reply-To: kurt@ibmarc.UUCP (Kurt Shoens) Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose Lines: 16