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1 total messages Started by Kevin W. Reed Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:35
Problems routing email
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Author: Kevin W. Reed
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:35
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We are having a problem with mail routing that apprently the 
administrators at the University are unable to correct.  Hopefully,
someone might have an idea of where they can look to get this problem 
solved.

What is happening is that when mail is routed through the University,
the To: From: and even Reply-To: headers are being changed (mangled would
be a better word).  The result is that when the recipent gets the message
and tries to reply to it, the headers are malformed and cause the messages
to bounce.

My first question is why would these headers need to be changed in the
first place?  In most cases, the addresses are domain style easily 
accessible addresses.

Why the Reply-To header is also changed doesn't make any sense as I 
always thought that this header was intended to go though unschathed.

The University is using ULTRIX V4.2 (Rev. 96) and apparently is using
sendmail.

This problem has been identified since at least January and several
attempts have been made by their administrators to correct the problem
without sucess.

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