Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!TRANSARC.COM!Craig_Everhart From: Craig_Everhart@TRANSARC.COM Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: handling messages with missing 'From:' lines Message-ID: Date: 28 Sep 90 15:03:12 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 14 Messages, and indeed AMS, is an RFC822 mail user agent. It assumes that incoming messages are roughly RFC822-conformant. The ``From_'' line (as it's conventionally referred to) is lots like the RFC822 Return-path: line in that it contains the envelope-from information, but it also contains a timestamp-when-received. It's not at all a plug-replacement for the From: line. I would argue, further, that it's not even a good loose replacement for the From: information. Sure, somebody could dink with the caption-building code to have it look for a From_ line for the message sender, but I think it's silly, and would point the ``problem'' back to the originators of From:-less mail. Craig