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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.co.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: AmigaUUCP 1.06D
Message-ID: <4761.tnews@templar.actrix.co.nz>
Date: 9 Jul 90 03:03:38 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Organization: TAP, NZAmigaUG.
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    My NewsFeed provides mail in a format AmigaUUCP doesn't seem to expect
    - in particular the message body does not have a From line (it does
    have a From: line. Note the colon. Different things).

    Instead, the message envelope has an 'R' line in it defining a return
    target address. For example:

    BODY HEADER ==================== D.actribf8e800 ====================

-|> >   Received: by actrix.co.nz; Mon, 9 Jul 90 20:16:29 NZS
    >   Date: Mon, 9 Jul 90 20:16:29 NZS
    >   From: John Vorstermans <john@actrix.co.nz>
    >   Message-Id: <9007090816.AA24345@actrix.co.nz>
    >   To: jbickers@templar.actrix.co.nz
    >   Subject: This is the test

    ENVELOPE ======================= D.templ8049800 ====================

    >   U john actrix
    >   # return status on failure
    >   Z
    >   # return address for status or input return
-|> >   R john@actrix.co.nz
    >   F D.actribf8e800
    >   I D.actribf8e800
    >   C rmail templar.actrix.co.nz!jbickers 

    So what I'd like to know is:

    1.  Have any other AmigaUUCP sites (other than my own neighbors :) had
        this problem?

    2.  Is it ok for me to modify uuxqt or whatever, so that it adds a
        From line to the body header, taking the data from the 'R' field
        in the envelope? Or should I get my NewsFeed to add a From line
        themselves?

    Uuxqt (or one of the programs in the AmigaUUCP processing chain) IS
    adding a From line now, but seems to be adding rubbish. To the above
    message, it would (DID, in fact) add a line like:

    >   From NZS!ved: Mon, 9 Jul 90 21:56:41 PST

    which looks like a munging of the Received: header line and the time
    (ie: trying to read the Received: line as a From line).

    My NewsFeed is running Elm, if that tingles anyone's memory banks.
    Another data point is that in NZ we don't have .UUCP addressing. All
    domain names now.

    I can be emailed... (hint :)
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*** John Bickers, TAP, NZAmigaUG.         jbickers@templar.actrix.co.nz ***
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