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Article #2511Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write?
From: blarson
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 1990 13:42
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 1990 13:42
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In article <25215@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) writes: >Our rmail has been taught to believe that any bangist address in a From: >line arriving via uucp is likely to be wrong, so it substitutes the From_ >path in place of it. It also does that if there is no domain, the >domain is "uucp", or there is no From: line. Therefore breaking any mail message that purposly put a differnt evalope "From" (actually return) address. Mailing lists should put the moderator address in the envalope for bounce messages (broken bitnet mailers don't use this for the designed purpouse) and leave the From: and Reply-To: fields alone, so users can easily reply to the actual message sender. (Error-to: is an unneeded sendmail inovation which hopefully hasn't been duplicated elsewhere.) -- blarson@usc.edu C news and rn for os9/68k! -- Bob Larson (blars) blarson@usc.edu usc!blarson Hiding differences does not make them go away. Accepting differences makes them unimportant.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!blars!blarson From: blarson@blars Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write? Message-ID: <151@blars> Date: 22 Dec 90 13:42:58 GMT References: <1990Dec18.155353.5024@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec19.154652.11573@sceard.Sceard.COM> <25215@ucsd.Edu> Sender: news@usc Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: dianne.usc.edu Originator: blarson@dianne.usc.edu