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From: dave@uwvax.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.unix
Subject: Re: From:, Mail, and sendmail
Message-ID: <330@uwvax.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 12-Jul-84 21:37:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 12 21:37:34 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Jul-84 00:12:28 EDT
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Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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> We deal with it by using path aliasing and sending mail to "joeblow@foo.UUCP".

Unfortunately, not everyone uses path aliasing either (the uw for one).
Not that we wouldn't like to, its just that we never got the software.

> "Reply-to:" was, I believe, intended for use with messages sent to
> distribution lists, so the whole list wouldn't see the replies, so it isn't
> a solution to the problem.  Besides, the non-"sendmail" sites aren't likely
> to properly update "Reply-to:" if they don't update "From:".

I sit corrected here.

Another plan of attack:  uucp sites *should* update the UN*X 'From ' line
correctly.  A BSD site will probably also be running rmail (the 4.2 rmail
is even portable to 2.9) and will reconstruct a 'correct' 'From ' line from
those contained in the header.  It could easily be modified to fix the 'From:'
line also.  Obviously, if some site messes up the 'From ' line, there isn't
much hope here either.  A non-BSD site just takes the address in the 'From '
line and replies to this address, doesn't it (assuming the site runs some
kind of UN*X)?  This should also get the reply to the right place.
-- 
Dave Cohrs @ wisconsin
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