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Article #554Re: Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters
From: Peter Honeyman
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1985 01:30
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1985 01:30
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I take issue with Barry's assertion: In UUCP it is necessary for sites to look at and modify headers as they pass through, because UUCP paths have to be rewritten. This is not true in the Arpa Internet, because host names are global. UUCP never looks at the data file (except to transfer it). And in standard UNIX, rmail prepends a "From user <date> remote from host" line, but otherwise leaves the message untouched, headers (which are not distinguished from the body) and all. Perhaps Barry refers to Berkeley UNIX, which is hardly a guide for proper mail handling. peter
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site down.FUN Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters Message-ID: <577@down.FUN> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 21:30:02 EDT Article-I.D.: down.577 Posted: Thu Aug 22 21:30:02 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 25-Aug-85 04:10:34 EDT References: <5063@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., Princeton University Lines: 16