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From: mst@mx.csun.edu (Mike Temkin)
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Subject: Re: Preprocessing of mail addresses
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Date: 29 Dec 90 02:12:03 GMT
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In article <277B92EF.4416@ics.uci.edu> jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine) writes:
>mst@secs.csun.edu (Mike Temkin) writes:
>>We have a problem here at CSUN.  We have machines that run both UNIX and VMS
>
>If your system accepted the mail through DECnet, then it should be
>rewriting the headers before it delivers the mail to you, if you want
>to use an RFC822 message format.  In any case, whoever moves the mail
>from one addressing domain to another must rewrite the headers.
>
>You might try compiling MH with BERK and DUMB defined, but I can't
>guarantee that even using both of those will defeat enough of the
>address parser to make it work for you.
>--
>John Romine

Yes, the mail is sent and received via DECnet and the headers cannot
be rewritten by the sender (and as I said, if the receiver rewrites
the headers and puts the sender in the wrong domain).  I guess I will
have to hack the parser routines and get it to recognize "::" as well
as ":" (if possible).

Thanks,
Mike.
--
Mike Temkin
mst@csun.edu
Cal. State U. Northridge, School of Engineering and Computer Science
Voice phone: (818) 885-3919