Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!sequent!ogicse!milton!sumax!polari!thebes!camco!bill From: bill@camco.Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Strange "From" paths Message-ID: <1106@camco.Celestial.COM> Date: 30 Jun 91 02:20:18 GMT References: <1991Jun27.064806.3789@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA Lines: 37 In <1991Jun27.064806.3789@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes: :### I recently received these two messages in, and while the "received by" :### sequences look fine, the "From" ! path looks mighty weird. Could someone :### explain to me what causes this? Why would a machine that's only seen :### a mail message once show up multiple times in the "From: line? :### Thanks in advance! :### The two "From:" lines are: :From: relay.cs.toronto.edu!uunet!stratus!uunet!watmath!uunet!stratus!jane@watmath (Jane Beckman) :From: relay.cs.toronto.edu!uunet!amc-gw!uunet!watmath!amc.com!phyllis@watmath (Phyllis Rostykus) :...stuff deleted This looks like some garbage I've been getting on the Unify mailing list after it passes through apple.com! FLAME ON For some reason they're rewriting perfectly good "From:" lines into something resembling a "Path:" header from news, breaking valid FQDNs like "From: Bill Campbell " into garbage like the above. Are they running under A/UX or something equally brain-damaged? The postmaster@apple.com tells me that address like those above a fine and should be accepted by my mailer :-) FLAME OFF Bill -- INTERNET: bill@Celestial.COM Bill Campbell; Celestial Software UUCP: ...!thebes!camco!bill 6641 East Mercer Way uunet!camco!bill Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206) 947-5591