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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: <1990Dec17.184129.1097@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 18:41:29 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.064837.8996@Latour.Sandelman.OCUnix.On.Ca> <1990Dec14.145021.2116@mp.cs.niu.edu> <1990Dec16.205033.23565@chinet.chi.il.us>
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In article <1990Dec16.205033.23565@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>No one is complaing about how the package is bundled in transport, just
>about how it looks when delivered (and only one portion of the transport
>knows when delivery is complete).
>
 This is really at the heart of the disagreement.  The UUCP protocols do
not specify a header.  The Internet protocols do.

 If you don't like what Internet processing does, just design your mail
software so that each message begins with '\n'.  Then what you think of
as header that should not be touched will really be part of the body where
they will not be touched.  The Internet forwarder you use will create some
headers for you.  The recipient domain can always discard all the Internet
headers and the '\n' if it likes, and you will have an unchanged messaged
at the receiving end, just as you want it.

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