Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!ziggy!usfvax2!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: expanding reply address in 2.3 Message-ID: <266D79C3.DFF@tct.uucp> Date: 6 Jun 90 21:46:42 GMT References: <2856@ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1990Jun5.225613.15848@DSI.COM> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 16 According to syd@DSI.COM: > * KLUDGE ALERT - DANGER WILL ROBINSON As I am the author of the aforementioned kludge, I affirm that Syd's description of the problem and its solution is accurate. >What I don't remember any more, was whether the local system name >was supposed to get taken back off before we handed the message >off the the MTA or not.... The patch I submitted did include the removal of a leading "local!" from the address. However, if INTERNET is defined, then the transformation is not prepending "local!", but instead, appending "@local"; and the latter is NOT removed. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT ,