Can I ask about 'smail' here?

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1 total messages Started by Jim Jagielski Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:53

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Author: Jim Jagielski
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:53

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It doesn't look like 'smail' has it's own group and that comp.mail.sendmail
most probably concerns itself with _only_ sendmail ('natch)...

Sooo... is this the place to ask about 'smail'?

On the off-shot that it is, I have a small question:

Using smail 3.1.28, my host is _only_ on the Ethernet. But whenever I
look at the full mail headers for stuff received, whereas 'sendmail' would
print something like:

	From user@machine.foo.bar <... the date went here ...>

'smail' prints:

	From machine.foo.bar!user <... as above ...>

Now the From: line is correct as is the Return Path:, but why does 'smail'
insist on the ! address-type for From (no colon)? It's a small picky
point and if it _really_ doesn't mean anything I'd be willing to ignore
it, but I'm a bit concerned.
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