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From: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Mail Interchange Standards
Message-ID: <654@ukecc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 11-Oct-86 10:31:20 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 11 10:31:20 1986
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Reply-To: edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett)
Organization: Univ. of KY, Engineering Computing Center
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Keywords: From lines.

In article <159@naples.UUCP> mjw@naples.UUCP (Matthew Waugh) writes:
>What is the standard for e-mail interchange in UNIX, and what
>if any are the documented references?
>
>Specifically I have a problem with From lines. I had always
>believed that if a line started with From, it was the start
>of the next message, otherwise it would have been pre-empted
>by a >. However we have started receiving mail from an Ultrix
>machine which has the bad manners to use From twice in a
>message. The UNIX (mailx/mail) software understands, and ignores
>the extra From. How does it tell???????
>

I am in the same position as Matthew. It is very hard to learn what
is 'correct' by listening to you experts.

Is there a document (How about the RFC822 standard for starters.) that
explains proper use of 'From' and 'From:', '!', '@', and '%' precedence
and in general explains the 'right' way to do things? Where can we get
a copy?

-- 
Edward C. Bennett

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