Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA From: MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Mark Crispin) Newsgroups: net.mail.msggroup Subject: Re: redistribution lists Message-ID: <597@hou3c.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-May-84 22:01:09 EDT Article-I.D.: hou3c.597 Posted: Tue May 29 22:01:09 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jun-84 08:36:42 EDT References: Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 15 To: mike@BRL-TGR.ARPA Cc: utzoo!laura@seismo, MsgGroup@BRL-MIS.ARPA In-Reply-To: Message from "Mike Muuss " of Tue 29 May 84 18:58:15-PDT Postal-Address: 725 Mariposa Ave. #103; Mountain View, CA 94041 Phone: (415) 497-1407 (Stanford); (415) 968-1052 (residence) Mike - You're wrong. The DEC-20's (the machine is a PDP-10; there is no such thing as a PDP-20) don't discard the MAIL FROM field. They use it as is. The bug is that they can't tell the difference between "null MAIL FROM" and "MAIL FROM unspecified". In the former you should discard the message on failure; in the latter you should parse the header to get a sender. We only do the latter action. The problem is that we support non-Internet networks which don't negotiate something like "MAIL FROM". -- Mark -- -------