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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write?
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.154618.7378@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 90 15:46:18 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.064837.8996@Latour.Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> <1990Dec14.174541.14252@Think.COM> <1990Dec14.233316.11292@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1990Dec14.233316.11292@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>the UUCP<->SMTP gateways.  The munging necessary to keep the internet
>happy is not being done in a way that allows it to be undone at the
>other end, nor is there any way for the original munger to know
>what form the recipient wants (how, for example would you know
>that les@fb.com is 3 uucp hops off the internet and would greatly
>prefer to see From: les@chinet.uucp rather than
> From: chinet!les@some.domain?).   The latter form is likely to
>undergo some very strange transformations along the way that
>you internet people never see.

 There is absolutely nothing in the protocols, or in the behavior of
'sendmail' that would prevent you sending out your email as:

From: les@chinet.uucp
To: someone@somewhere

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Date: 10 BC.
From: les@chinet.uucp
To: someone@somewhere
Subject: Whatever you feel like.

 The text of your message.

 ...............

 I guarantee that sendmail will not change the second set of 'headers'.  And
I am pretty sure your smart enough to quickly grind out a shell script or
two that the recipient could use to delete the munged headers you don't
like.

 Now what exactly is all this griping about?

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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