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From: jeremy@lana.prime.com (Jeremy Nussbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: bad address problem
Keywords: force header reedit
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Date: 16 Jun 89 22:14:32 GMT
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In article <1989Jun14.124414.20925@ateng.com> chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>According to jeremy@lana.prime.com (Jeremy Nussbaum):
>>I have been having many problems with the addresses generated by the
>>reply option in elm, and many people at my site are unhappy about it.
>
>You can reconfigure Elm to ignore the Reply-To: and From: in favor of the
>From_ line (gack!).  I've never tried it, but it's worth a try.
>-- 
I want to do the opposite, and configure elm to use the from: line,
because it is having difficulty with the many @'s and : that have crept into
the From_ line.  I am adding a configuration variable to my local installation
to disable from line return address calculation.  We send all of
our mail to a central smart mailing machine via sendmail, so
we don't want to do any special address calculation or optimization.
In looking at RFC822, c.5.4, only one @ is permitted.  We occasionally get
mail with more than one @ in the from field, and I presume elm doesn't like
the rfc733 syntax.  Does anyone else run into this problem?  Does anyone
else have a better fix or workaround?
Thanks,


Jeremy Nussbaum (jeremy@jeremy.prime.com, ...!harvard!prmcad!jeremy)
Prime Computer/2 Crosby Drive MS 16-2 /Bedford, Ma. 01730
(617)275-1800 x6745
Standard Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are mine and not my employer's.