Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:2215 comp.mail.uucp:3385 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!david From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: rewriting to's & cc's Message-ID: <12226@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 20 Jul 89 21:31:11 GMT References: <4291@viscous.sco.COM> <203@mirsa.inria.fr> Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae) Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences Lines: 26 In article <203@mirsa.inria.fr> huitema@mirsa.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) writes: >From article <4291@viscous.sco.COM>, by stewarte@sco.COM (Stewart Evans): >> As I understand it, it is proper for transfer agents >> to rewrite from: fields so that they point back to >> the sender. Is it "proper" to do the same with to: >> and cc: fields? > >It is improper to rewrite any field, except perhaps the "envelope". Just >pass the message as it is: if the originating MUA used proper domain Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, 1,000,000 times wrong For instance, mail going from UUCP-land to RFC-land must have the ! type addresses translated to @ type addresses before they'll be understood by RFC-land mailers. In general gateway machines MUST rewrite headers I will submit that my favorite mailer, MMDF, perhaps does this too much. But recent changes allow this to be tailored down quite a bit. -- <- David Herron; an MMDF guy <- ska: David le casse\*' {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET <- <- WARNING: Hunting season is now open in West Virginia!