Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!clan!ptrubey
From: ptrubey@clan.UUCP (Phil Trubey)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: RFC976 vs. the real world...
Message-ID: <328@clan.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 87 22:50:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: clan.328
Posted: Wed Dec  9 17:50:46 1987
References: <18533@amdahl.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: ptrubey@clan.UUCP (Phil Trubey)
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <18533@amdahl.amdahl.com> tron@uts.amdahl.com (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
>To summarize:  should From: header fields in the form:
>
>	From: jqp@localhost.UUCP (J. Q. P.)
>
>be the preferred, or only, form for sites which are in the UUCP zone
>but are not in a registered domain?  Or should it be possible, or
>preferred for such sites to use:
>
>	From: localhost!jqp (J. Q. P.)
>
>instead?  

Have it as a configuration option when the person is building your
system from the source.  I wish SMAIL allowed this!

You can include guidelines for people to follow when choosing which
From: header scheme to use.


By the way, anybody know how to contort SMAIL so that it generates
proper (ie domain style) From: lines?