Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!daver!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <26A73D1C.73C0@tct.uucp> Date: 20 Jul 90 17:19:23 GMT References: <707@logicon.com> <1990Jul16.200955.29906@chinet.chi.il.us> <712@logicon.com> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 28 According to Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey): >I [...] rewrite *all* headers into bang-only form when the mail >is being delivered via UUCP. The From_ line, in particular, >is rewritten, but sendmail also rewrites From:, To:, Cc:, Reply-To:, >etc. in a similar manner. This behavior prevents UUCP-only sites from exchanging RFC822-conformant mail. It is EVIL and RUDE. Oddly, Jeff quotes RFC976 in defense of this practice: > ``Because of the confusion surrounding hybrid addresses, we recommend > that all transport layer software avoid the use of hybrid addresses > at all times. [...]'' As Jeff should know, "chip@ateng.com" is NOT a hybrid address. However, ateng.com is a UUCP-only domain. So Jeff would rewrite mail to ateng to contain "To: ateng.com!chip", thus breaking the header. Gateways should rewrite message envelopes, but not headers. ********************************* ** UUCP is just a transport. ** ********************************* Please don't rewrite our headers! -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT ,