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From: schoff@cadtroy.UUCP (Martin Lee Schoffstall)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: The "From" field
Message-ID: <139@cadtroy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 10:08:57 EST
Article-I.D.: cadtroy.139
Posted: Wed Nov 14 10:08:57 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 16-Nov-84 01:28:21 EST
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Organization: CADMUS [Troy Office], Troy NY
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My machine "cadtroy" is in the UUCP domain, I happen to use emacs
to generate mail.  Emacs rmail.ml places a field in the message that
looks like the following:

	From:  Martin Lee Schoffstall <schoff@cadtroy.UUCP>
	
If my message is going to cadmus!seismo!root@sri-unix.ARPA I have a problem
due to the fact that cadmus does not touch this "From field".  When the
message gets to root@sri-unix.ARPA he thinks that seismo knows how to
talk to cadtroy (which it doesn't).  I believe what cadmus should do the
following (though this is not my area of expertise):

From:  Martin Lee Schoffstall	<cadmus!schoff@cadtroy.UUCP>.

I could also change rmail.ml on cadtroy so that instead of generating
schoff@cadtroy.UUCP it would generate cadtroy!schoff.

Please send me mail if you have any comments or suggestions.

marty

{wivax,seismo,harvard,bbncca,twg}!cadmus!schoff
cadmus!schoff@seismo.ARPA