Re: "Return-Path" vs. "From"

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From: Eric Allman
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1984 01:05

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Gosh Chris, I'm awfully sorry that I have tried to do the right
thing instead of perpetuating the insanity that has characterized
(and sadly, continues to characterize) the UNIX mail system.

Sendmail passes the information it gets from the received envelope
into the transmitted envelope.  If the mailer is a program rather
than an SMTP channel, the "envelope" consists of the command line
arguments.

The version of Mail that comes with sendmail works, as does MH.
This seems to cover 90% of the 4.2 users.

eric

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From: eric%ucbarpa@Berkeley.ARPA (Eric Allman)
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Subject: Re: "Return-Path" vs. "From"
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Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 20:05:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 20:05:00 1984
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To: Christopher A Kent <cak@Purdue.ARPA>
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