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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Routing Stamps
Message-ID: <1762@peora.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 08:43:19 EST
Article-I.D.: peora.1762
Posted: Fri Nov  1 08:43:19 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:01:39 EST
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Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl.
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Now I have a question.

Presently when we receive UUCP mail, the routing stamps (the "From_" lines
at the front that are put on when an rmail receives a UUCP message, and
which functionally are somewhat analogous to postal backstamps) have quite
a wide variety of syntaxes.

We presently produce a "From:" line here from these stamps, since they
tend to have a much higher probability of being correct than do the From:
lines that have been Mung'ed by Sendmail.  However, the Sendmail sites
still make many unusual transformations on the From_ lines.

Could someone summarize the conventions presently in use for generating
From_ lines at Sendmail sites?  Why do some of these have @'s in them?
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