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In article <XuD6emB5W2pwEAgT@turnpike.com> Richard Clayton (richard@turnpike.com) wrote:

> If mail arrives at your machine with a source route in the MAIL FROM: it
> seems to us that it is necessary for you to send the mail onward with
> that source route intact. Presumably the machines which have handled the
> mail so far have put the source route there for a reason, and you may be
> breaking the return path if you alter it at all!

I presume Demon still pass on any source route that already existed, but
don't add any of their own... Maybe not though.

> You might care to note that the current documentation of Demon's "mail
> forwarding" service explicitly states that the mail will be rewritten at
> Demon into a source route format!

Does anyone know if this is still happening with the new software
on the punts? Only this was actually preventing Archimedes KA9Q
users from using mail forwarding, as it can't cope with the source
routed address.

> Remember when commenting further (I always seem to be saying this) you
> cannot read 821 (or indeed many other RFCs) without having 1122 or 1123
> open beside you! Also, everyone quoting 822 (which refers to headers)
> rather than 821 (SMTP envelopes) has missed the point entirely :-)

I was quoting from 1123 though... Specifically from the section 
which discusess the envelope.

Tom

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