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From: bill@allegra.tempo.nj.att.com (Bill Schell)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: handling messages with missing 'From:' lines
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Date: 27 Sep 90 21:05:37 GMT
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A few of the mailers around here like to send out messages with valid
'From' header lines, but with no 'From:' header line  (note the absence
of a colon in the first case).  When messages gets these, it lists the sender
as "<unknown sender>".  Does anyone else have this problem?  I believe
that this is semi-typical in the UUCP world.   How would one go about
making messages look at the 'From' line if the 'From:' line is missing?

Thanks very much,

	Bill Schell
	AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
	bill@allegra.att.com

PS: here's a typical message header of the type I mentioned

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 From alice!bill Tue Sep  4 11:19:20 1990
 Date: Tue, 4 Sep 90 11:19:03 EDT
 To: bill@allegra.att.com
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