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In article <772157067wnr@roborat.demon.co.uk>, Dave Scott
<dave@roborat.demon.co.uk> writes

>WinDIS downloads into the mbox file, each message prefixed with a 'From '
>header. PM-Demon's mailin.exe program then copies each message with this
>line intact, and it's this that get's preserved in forwarded messages.
>
>OTOH, a quick test with the Pegasus built-in POP3 transport shows
>messages received that way don't have this header.

The existence of "From " is a local convention. It's up to an individual
program what it does. Of course to interwork with other programs on the
same machine, or to create files for import into other systems (not
necessarily local) then it might be desirable.

> The solution
>therefore seems to be to fix mailin to translate the 'From ' into a
>Return-Path: as you suggest.

No! (see other article)

>(I might still also perform the original modification of 'From ' to
>'>From ' on *outgoing* messages I was asking about, *unless* anyone
>knows of a reason not to?)

Deeply undesirable :(
X-From or X-Old-Envelope would be OK

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