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From: david@pacbell.PacBell.COM (David St.Pierre)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.sysadmin,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rewriting From: lines
Message-ID: <504@pacbell.PacBell.COM>
Date: 7 Dec 88 06:25:00 GMT
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Reply-To: david@pacbell.PacBell.COM (David St.Pierre)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) wrote:
>'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.

Um Brian, you're taking liberty with what I said. I didn't say I was
doing the right thing - I did say that traditional System V mailers
didn't attempt to support RFC822 and didn't really support "headers".

System V behavior is to prepend a From_ to each message. That's it.
That's what I do here. I understand that most sendmails rewrite the
From: line - I don't really agree with that. I'd rather have a destination
address and use pathalias. But that's a different discussion.

When you get all those sendmails out there to support MX records
(we're an MX record and a lot of mailers can't reach us), then I'll
start getting concerned. But neither sendmail nor smail 3.x are my
idea of a lot of fun.

I use pathalias heavily and will re-route the next hop if I don't
talk to them directly. Maybe an interim solution would be for ames
to send all their uucp bounces to a site which uses pathalias and
actively reroutes. Or hack another flag into sendmail (:-) to
continually consolidate From_ lines.
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David St. Pierre 415/823-6800 {att,bellcore,sun,ames,pyramid}!pacbell!david