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Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write?
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Date: 22 Dec 90 13:42:58 GMT
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In article <25215@ucsd.Edu> brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor) writes:
>Our rmail has been taught to believe that any bangist address in a From:
>line arriving via uucp is likely to be wrong, so it substitutes the From_
>path in place of it.  It also does that if there is no domain, the
>domain is "uucp", or there is no From: line.

Therefore breaking any mail message that purposly put a differnt
evalope "From" (actually return) address.  Mailing lists should put
the moderator address in the envalope for bounce messages (broken
bitnet mailers don't use this for the designed purpouse) and leave the
From: and Reply-To: fields alone, so users can easily reply to the
actual message sender.  (Error-to: is an unneeded sendmail inovation
which hopefully hasn't been duplicated elsewhere.)

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