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From: ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.headers,comp.mail.uucp,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Help! sendmail rewriting 'a@b.uucp' addresses in SMTP environment
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Date: 4 Apr 91 19:22:35 GMT
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In <4594@proxima.UUCP> jsd@proxima.UUCP (Jeremy Gryttpype Druker) writes:

>ccfj@hippo.ru.ac.za (F.F. Jacot Guillarmod) wondered about sendmail
>rewriting user@host addresses as host!user, or host!user@host...

>If the thought of trudging through the sendmail.cf file isn't utterly
>appealing, there is a package called Ease that appeared recently in
>alt.sources, which claims to be able to translate a sendmail.cf file
>into human-readable form, and then back again.  Mail me if you don't
>have it there.

I think the point here is to find out what sort of consensus there is
(if at all possible) on what constitutes 'acceptable' headers, and
only then to try and formulate a set of rules (if at all possible) to
implement this behaviour.  The default distribution sendmail.cf's 
were obviously formulated the way they are for some sort of reasons,
and it may be instructive to find out what those reasons were, and
if they are still valid.  A large number of sites _must_ be using
configurations close to the default releases - and finding them
satisfactory.  Is internet purity or rfc822 compliance a myth?

Thanks for the tip, and offer..... 

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