Re: redistribution lists

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1 total messages Started by Mike Muuss Fri, 25 May 1984 00:23

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Author: Mike Muuss
Date: Fri, 25 May 1984 00:23

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BRL specificly adjusts the SMTP MAIL FROM field so that failure notifications
from the Unix-Wizards list go to Unix-Wizards-Request.

However, there are some sites (most notably the PDP-20 systems) which
are "very clever", and discard the MAIL FROM field, and re-parse the
header.  If such a site has a "mail exploder" which further redistributes
the Unix-Wizards mail, and there is a problem, they will return the
messages back to the sender, rather than Unix-Wizards-Request.
The 4.1 BSD (BBN) UNIX systems also exhibit this problem; 4.2's SENDMAIL
seems to do it right.

I doubt that we will ever get all the systems on the net to ever
implement the specification correctly.
	-Mike

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