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From: vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
Message-ID: <66630@sgi.sgi.com>
Date: 10 Aug 90 19:17:19 GMT
References: <8M-4O=A@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <1990Aug09.183952.14944@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1990Aug09.183952.14944@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> 
> Around here, at least half of the mail traffic has the header and
> envelope generated automatically by a user agent as a "reply" to 
> something that has been received.  If these come out "broken" it's
> because something in the transport re-wrote something incorrectly.


Some return address problems are caused by MUAs, not MTAs.
There are very old bugs in the stock 4.3BSD Mail that cause it to destroy
perfectly reasonable but long or complicated return addresss.  There are
also some wonderful features in SVR3.2 /bin/mail and mailx.


Vernon Schryver
vjs@sgi.com