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From: jww@bonnie.UUCP (Joel West)
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Subject: From lines in mail headers
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 00:21:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 23 00:21:04 1985
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A quick question for the gurus out there:
What do the two "From" headers at the beginning of a mail message signify?  
Below are excerpts from my sample case (note redundant cbosgd in #7


		(sample #1)
From uucp Wed Feb  6 12:50 EST 1985
>From cbosgd!decvax.UUCP!genrad!charlie  Wed Feb  6 12:50:03 1985 remote from clyde

	(sample #7)
From uucp Fri May 10 01:07 EDT 1985
>From cbosgd.ATT.UUCP!db  Fri May 10 01:07:10 1985 remote from cbosgd
From: db@cbosgd.ATT.UUCP (Dave Bursik)

	(sample #8)
From uucp Fri May 10 06:20 EDT 1985
>From uw-beaver!tektronix!davidl@orca  Fri May 10 06:20:43 1985 remote from ihnp4
From: ihnp4!uw-beaver!tektronix!davidl@orca


	(sample #9)
From uucp Mon May 13 05:23 EDT 1985
>From ut-sally!ut-ngp!werner  Mon May 13 05:23:25 1985 remote from ihnp4


In particular, isn't the >From line redundant to an honest-to-goodness
RFC822-std From: line (which I assume has been assaulted by each and
every mailer along the way).  Is it necessary to include both of these
first two "From" lines (I'm writing my own mailer to drop mail at a
sendmail site, so the question is not academic).

And boy, the "remote from" is ugly! :-).
is not academic.)
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