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From: fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: problem with uucp-originated mail
Message-ID: <47412@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 90 19:51:47 GMT
References: <1990Dec11.040246.11831@mp.cs.niu.edu> <199@touch.touch.com> <1990Dec13.161428.1822@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Organization: USENET Protocol Police, Western Gateway Division
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Do NOT under any circumstances change the UUCP mail protocol. If your
mail system invokes rmail at the remote end of a UUCP connection, then
the first line of standard input (i.e. the letter), MUST be in the
form:
	From addr date remote from uucpname

where "uucpname" is your site's UUCP name. Doing anything else is
BROKEN, WRONG, and will not work with the vast installed base of UUCP
sites around the world. If you want to use domains and RFC822 style
addresses instead, use BSMTP (and be prepared to hand source code to
your UUCP neighbors for the command you want to invoke on their end),
and DON'T invoke it through "rmail".

	yours for correct interoperation,

	Erik E. Fair	apple!fair	fair@apple.com

P.S.	I am occasionally tempted to register my own UUCP site as
	"somewhere".