Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart

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From: Edward Bunch
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1989 01:00

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In article <326@trwrc.UUCP> agnew@trwrc.UUCP (Robert A. Agnew) writes:
>In article <918@ur-cc.UUCP> msir@cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) writes:
>I ask the net: Is this true?  Do "most Internet sites use RFC822 as their
>*internal* mail representation also"?

You bet. I think that all sites that hope to communicate with the Internet or
Usenet should use RFC822. Why throw away information on purpose.
I just finished fixing Sun's sendmail.subsidiary.cf so that it does
this. S11 now uses $j in place of $w.

Edward A. Bunch                       UUCP: {uunet,amdahl,sun}!fai!edb
Fujitsu America, Inc.                 DOMAIN: edb@fai.com
Computer Support and Administation.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!unisoft!fai!edb
From: edb@fai.UUCP (Edward Bunch)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart
Message-ID: <1876@fai.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 01:00:41 GMT
References: <885@ur-cc.UUCP> <888@ur-cc.UUCP> <918@ur-cc.UUCP> <326@trwrc.UUCP>
Reply-To: edb@fai.fai.com (Edward Bunch)
Organization: Fujitsu America, Inc.
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