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From: ade@clark.edu (Adrian Miranda)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Rewriting from: lines
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.062423.8520@clark.edu>
Date: 12 Sep 90 06:24:23 GMT
Sender: ade@clark.edu (Adrian Miranda)
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Organization: Clark College, Vancouver, Wa.  USA
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I posted this once before, but never got a response.

We have a neighbor who insists on rewriting valid From: lines on mail
that is headed our way.  That is, if the From: line contains
user@domain, this site will turn it into site!domain!user.
Apparently, they feel that any site they talk to with uucp could not
possibly deal with an internet style address.  Since we are running
smail3, there is no need to modify the From: line, but my complaints
have been ignored.

What I am wondering is, should I try to turn these From: lines back
into user@domain?  I was thinking of using a perl script to intercept
incoming mail from this site.  Does this seem reasonable, or should I
just leave it alone?

Adrian Miranda
uunet!clark!ade  or  ade@clark.edu