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From: cluther@supernet.haus.com (Clay Luther)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Speaking of brain-dead mailers....
Message-ID: <1990Aug20.214204.10252@supernet.haus.com>
Date: 20 Aug 90 21:42:04 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Harris Adacom Corporation
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Don Lewis' discussion about good and bad From, From_ and From: lines
prompted me to post this problem.

I am having a very hard time receiving mail from bitnet sites.  By this, I mean
that such mail gets to me alright, but invariably, the From: line is munged
to hell.  Even the From line is incorrect more often than not.  Here is
an example:


From iex!uunet!ALASKA.BITNET!JSBFG Fri Aug 17 15:11:14 1990
Return-Path: <iex!uunet!ALASKA.BITNET!JSBFG>
To: supernet.haus.com!cluther
Sender: "ACAD1A::JSBFG"  <iex!ALASKA.BITNET!uunet!CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu!JSBFG>
Reply-To: "Bill The Cat"  <iex!ALASKA.BITNET!uunet!CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu!JSBFG>
From: "Bill The Cat"  <iex!ALASKA.BITNET!uunet!CORNELLC.cit.cornell.edu!JSBFG>

The user in question is jsbfg@alaska.bitnet.

However, notice that the Sender:, Reply-To:, and From: lines all have been
mangled beyond use.

Anybody got any ideas why this is occuring.  Serious answers, please.  ;)


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