Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!Mishkin@YALE.ARPA From: Mishkin@YALE.ARPA (Nathaniel Mishkin) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: SMTP "MAIL FROM:" Message-ID: <636@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 21:36:53 EDT Article-I.D.: hou3c.636 Posted: Wed Jun 13 21:36:53 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 04:15:43 EDT Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 12 To: header-people@MIT-MC.ARPA The SU-SHASTA.ARPA SMTP mailer likes to send out SMTP MAIL commands that look like: MAIL FROM:It turns out that for obscure reasons (that probably indicate a deficiency in my own mail system), the fact that it says "shasta" and not "su-shasta.arpa" screws me up. But is it not reasonable to expect that all addresses presented in the SMTP transaction are the official names, not nicknames? -- Nat