Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site down.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!honey From: honey@down.FUN Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: Uucp and rejected mail Message-ID: <4000002@down.FUN> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 18:40:00 EDT Article-I.D.: down.4000002 Posted: Fri Oct 5 18:40:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 05:29:02 EDT References: <332@west44.UUCP> Organization: The Official Fun Machine of Princeton University EECS Lines: 13 Nf-ID: #R:west44:-33200:down:4000002:000:637 Nf-From: down!honey Oct 5 18:40:00 1984 the "working" fix is non-trivial, but here goes (in brief). hack your mailers to give uux a flag and a user name; most common is -a return_address. then have uux spit out a new job control card with that user name on it; most common is R return_address. now hack uuxqt to get the return address user name off the R card instead of the U card. eh voila! if everybody does this, rejected mail will get back to the right luser. DO NOT give in to the temptation of putting the correct return address in the user field of the U card -- i tried this and broke hundreds of uuxqt's nation-wide (see my earlier notes in this forum). peter