Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!ucsd!nosc!crash!orbit!marilyn!shawn From: shawn@marilyn.UUCP (Shawn P. Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: internet/uucp mail Message-ID: <100@marilyn.UUCP> Date: 23 Nov 90 04:02:29 GMT References: <1990Nov15.205028.4567@beach.csulb.edu> <658804371.13790@proa.sv.dg.com> <659186205.1594@proa.sv.dg.com> Reply-To: shawn@marilyn.marilyn.mn.org (Shawn P. Stanley) Organization: Litfal Lines: 24 In article <659186205.1594@proa.sv.dg.com> gary@proa.sv.dg.com (Gary Bridgewater) writes: >In article fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: >>The easiest way to do this is by appending @bigcorp.com to it. >But this generates an address that will give a naive UUCP site fits. Indeed! Actually, I continually run into the following problem. A "From " line is not guaranteed to be an actual return path; rather, it's at best a transmittal route. In several situations I run into, there is at least one site that can't talk back to a site it received mail from. The only lines I can use at that point are "From:" or "Reply-To" lines. However, most messages I receive have no "Reply-To" lines in them. Thus, I'm left with "From:" lines. Yet many messages I receive have "addr3!addr2!spam@addr1.com" or somesuch in the "From:" line, and most are missing a prepended site name from one of my neighbors, whether it's a full "!" path or not. Replying to mail has become a very manual process for me. It's quite frustrating. -- Shawn P. Stanley shawn@marilyn.marilyn.mn.org bungia!marilyn!shawn {rosevax,crash}!orbit!marilyn!shawn