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From: tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: RMAIL 3.19 and Return paths
Message-ID: <1991Mar10.012210.14706@Veritas.COM>
Date: 10 Mar 91 01:22:10 GMT
References: <1991Mar9.063545.20567@kessner.denver.co.us>
Organization: VERITAS Software
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In article <1991Mar9.063545.20567@kessner.denver.co.us> david@kessner.denver.co.us (David D. Kessner) writes:
>My From paths are a bit wrong, or at least lacking.  My machine is
>kessner.denver.co.us, but it is one hop away from the Internet (I UUCP with
>csn.org), FYI.  The here are a few From's:
>
>        A message mailed to csn!cyan.csn.org!dcm had
>        From:    kessner!david@csn.org (David Kessner)

This From: line was not generated by Smail running on kessner, it was
generated by the sendmail running on csn.  Assuming that you set your
hostnames correctly, the From: line delivered from your site to csn
should have been:

	From: david@kessner.denver.co.us

Existing sendmail configurations often do bad things with correct
messages generated by UUCP sites.  Nearly all of the sites that veritas
talks to run sendmail, and as a result, it is rare for me to receive a
message that contains any addresses which are simple domain addresses,
despite the fact that I use an RFC-conformant mailer, and many of the
users that I communicate with do as well.

One last note: according to the rules of RFC822 and RFC976, the From:
line that you mentioned should be replyable.
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