Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg
From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: "From:" vs. "From_"
Message-ID: <371@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 88 01:10:50 GMT
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Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article , by vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie):
> Since it is essentially on my advice that pacbell does what it does, ....
> [Kantor]
> # Nearly every one of the bounced messages turns out to be a reply to mail
> # that passed through host 'pacbell' before it got to ames.  'pacbell'
> # doesn't add its sitename to the "From:" line in mail, but does add it to
> # the "From " line.
> # [...]
> # The system administrator at host 'pacbell' claims he's doing the right
> # thing.  I think he's wrong.  There it stands.
> 
> And I think he's right.  Is that as far as we're going to get?
> 
> Some sites add their names to From: lines, some don't.

A world first :-) :-) :-) I agree with Mr. Vixie.

I agree that the From line should be altered by sites that got
the stuff along the way, but the From: line should be left alone.
If this were the case (TAKE NOTE xait.xerox.com) then my conversations
with servers on the Internet would be a lot less painful, and xait
would be bouncing a lot less mail. Since servers tend to use the
 From: line, and I go in and manually add the correct From: line
(From: dg%lakart.uucp@harvard.harvard.edu)

If it were left alone, then everything would be fine. As it is, things
wind up addressed to

xait!dg%lakart.uucp@harvard.harvard.edu

which becomes:

xait!lakart!xait!dg

Can you cay OOPS. I'd use lakart!dg@harvard.harvard.edu, but have you
any idea how fragile a ! is in a return path with a @ in it as well .....
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