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 References:Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA Lines: 41 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 ..... -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@harvard.harvard.edu +---+