Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Which headers may Sendmail re-write? Message-ID: Date: 2 Jan 91 21:50:19 GMT References: <277A64CD.4C4B@tct.uucp> <1990Dec31.190906.328@chinet.chi.il.us> <2781581A.6663@tct.uucp> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 12 chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) writes: >For the envelope (rmail argument), make it domain!path!user. For the >header, *don't change it*. Remember the basic argument: the From: >line is an RFC822 animal. Software that parses From: must therefore >do so by the rules of RFC822, or by definition it's broken. Actually, I believe one point that has been made abundantly clear in this whole discussion was that just because a header looks and smells like an 822 header, it may not be. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]