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From: MAP@LCS.MIT.EDU (Michael A. Patton)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: interest group mail from From: field handling
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Date: 25 Feb 91 16:55:25 GMT
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   Date: Wed, 20 Feb 91 09:02:42 PST
   From: rlg@desktalk.com (Richard L. Gralnik)

   Hi.  Whenever someone posts to an interest group (e.g. tcp-ip), the mail
   the rest of us receive as part of the distribution of that posting shows
   tcp-ip-RELAY@NIC.DDN.MIL in the From: field of the header.  

I think your local mailer is at fault.  As you can see above, your
message arrived here with a proper "From:" field.  The SMTP envelope
did contain tcp-ip-RELAY@nic.ddn.mil, but that should only be used for
bounces (and I appreciate their doing that so I don't see the bounces
when I post :-).  I suspect some local mail delivery system at your
end or your mail user agent is misinterpreting the RFC822 header
and/or the RFC821 envelope.

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 / | / | /_|__/         Laboratory for Computer Science
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