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From: fred@mot.UUCP (Fred Christiansen)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: an extant example of header munging by a mailer
Message-ID: <450@mot.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 13-Nov-85 19:12:20 EST
Article-I.D.: mot.450
Posted: Wed Nov 13 19:12:20 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 14-Nov-85 03:41:57 EST
Distribution: net
Organization: Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ  85282
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A certain company's mailer is munging the "From" header in mail msgs improperly.
For instance the following message was sent to check connection response time:

	echo neighbor | mail neighbor!mot!fred

It would have arrived at "neighbor" with a uux(1) instruction to
"rmail mot!fred", the input being:

	From fred  Tue Nov 12 21:38:26 1985 remote from mot

	neighbor

Their mailer munged things into:

	From uucp Wed Nov 13 18:49 EST 1985
	>From neighbor!fred  Tue Nov 12 21:38:26 1985 remote from mot
	Received: by neighbor.neighbor (4.12/4.7)
		id AA28316; Tue, 12 Nov 85 20:57:04 pst
	Date: Tue, 12 Nov 85 20:57:04 pst
	From: mot!neighbor!fred
	Message-Id: <8511130457.AA28316@neighbor.neighbor>
	Apparently-To: mot!fred
	Status: R

	neighbor

Note that the ">From" and "From:" lines are incorrect.  The ">From" line
should read:
	>From mot!fred  Tue Nov 12 21:38:26 1985 remote from neighbor
and the "From:" line should read:
	From: mot!fred
At least this is what mailers I've seen are doing, such as at ihnp4.

Any chance this phenomenon is due to the loop-back nature of this msg?
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Fred Christiansen ("Canajun, eh?") @ Motorola Microsystems, Tempe, AZ
UUCP:  {seismo!terak, trwrb!flkvax, utzoo!mnetor, ihnp4, attunix}!mot!fred
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