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2 total messages Started by Dick Munroe Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:06

#365

Author: Dick Munroe
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:06

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I have a customer who has noticed that MX (3.1C) modifies the From: lines of
his messages, e.g.,

        From: foo@bar.baz (Name)

turns into:

        From: <foo@bar.baz>
His specific complaint is that information is being lost in the translation,
the "(Name)" goes away.  I haven't poured over the RFCs enough to know if this
sort of rewriting is reasonable, but why would MX be rewriting the From:
portion of the envelope?  The other question is: should MX be preserving the
rest of the information in the line instead of just dropping it?
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Re: Rewriting of From lines...

#367

Author: Matt Madison
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:28

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In article <1993Jan25.100655.1175@dmc.com>, munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe) writes:
>I have a customer who has noticed that MX (3.1C) modifies the From: lines of
>his messages, e.g.,
>
>        From: foo@bar.baz (Name)
>
>turns into:
>
>        From: <foo@bar.baz>
>His specific complaint is that information is being lost in the translation,
>the "(Name)" goes away.  I haven't poured over the RFCs enough to know if this
>sort of rewriting is reasonable, but why would MX be rewriting the From:
>portion of the envelope?  The other question is: should MX be preserving the
>rest of the information in the line instead of just dropping it?

What is the origin of the message?  Are the address and comment syntactcally
valid?  MX does the best it can, including mapping comments into personal
names when it can (although some would say that that is a dubious practice,
because no direct mapping can be made for all cases).  Can your customer
provide more details about the problem?

-Matt
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