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Re: whether to prefix myhost! onto the From: or not..

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From: Joe Angelo
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1987 23:05
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in article <1320@decuac.DEC.COM>, avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) says:
> Xref: auspyr comp.mail.misc:202 comp.mail.uucp:487
> 
> In article <364@micropro.UUCP> mojo@micropro.UUCP (Morris Jones) writes:
>>Yeah, but smail doesn't (can't?) prepend myhost! on the From: line.
>>What am I supposed to do?  And what is bsmtp?
> 
> Smail has nothing to do with it.  The sendmail.cf file distributed
> with smail (really built by making smail) is what does not prepend
> hostnames.  And rightly so, by my way of thinking.  The chnage to make
> it prepend hostnames is trivial.  But, no, I'm not going to tell you.

But, yes, I'm going to tell you... Well, something else instead.
*WE* convert user@domain to the UUCP format of domain_or_system!user so that
SYSV mailx can reply to it. IF smail is installed on a site, it will figure
things out when sending mail to this sort of reply (isn't that what it was
made for!?) IF smail isn't installed, then the local mailer will figure it
out as well. NO conflict of interest, NO reported problems.

S14
R$+<@$=E>		$1			user@etherhost -> user
R$*<@$+>$*		$@$1<@$2>$3		already ok
#R$+<@$+.$j>$*		$1<@$j>$3		hide anydom.$j under $j
#R$+			$@$1<@$j>		add our full address (orig)
R$+			$@$w!$1			add our full address

-- 
"No matter      Joe Angelo, Sr. Sys. Engineer @ Austec, Inc., San Jose, CA.
where you go,   ARPA: aussjo!joe@lll-tis-b.arpa       PHONE: [408] 279-5533
there you       UUCP: {sdencore,cbosgd,amdahl,ptsfa,dana}!aussjo!joe
are ..."        UUCP: {styx,imagen,dlb,jmr,sci,altnet}!auspyr!joe
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!amdahl!dlb!auspyr!joe
References: <1320@decuac.DEC.COM>

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From: joe@auspyr.UUCP (Joe Angelo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: whether to prefix myhost! onto the From: or not..
Message-ID: <4271@auspyr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Apr-87 18:05:49 EST
Article-I.D.: auspyr.4271
Posted: Wed Apr 22 18:05:49 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Apr-87 06:12:17 EST
References: <1320@decuac.DEC.COM>
Organization: Austec, Inc., San Jose, CA. USA
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