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From: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Trouble with From: lines
Message-ID: <1120@decuac.DEC.COM>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 09:08:08 EST
Article-I.D.: decuac.1120
Posted: Thu Dec  4 09:08:08 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 4-Dec-86 20:04:40 EST
References: <621@cullvax.UUCP>
Organization: DEC SWS, Landover, MD
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In article <621@cullvax.UUCP>, news@cullvax.UUCP (Mail and USENET News System maintenance account) writes:
> We are a UUCP site that is fed by an ARPA site.  Incoming ARPA
> messages used to come to us with headers saying things like
> 
> 	From: arpa-feed!user@arpa.site
> 
> which worked fine--one could reply to it, etc.  Recently this has
> changed (the "arpa-feed!" part isn't added), so return addresses have
> to be composed manually.  
> ....  Am I being unreasonable?

I too think you are ... well, not unreasonable... But I think the ARPA
site is correct.  Soo, maybe you are uninformed? See, you say parse
"host!user@other" as Send to "host" for "user@other".  I say it says
"send to "other" for "host!user".

Not all hosts, uucp or otherwise, add a "host!" to the beginning of
the From: line.  The From_ may be changed that way.

It is not such a big deal to request that mail standards are adhered
to.  There are no "uucp" mail standards except as defined in the
Internet stndards.  In any event, the code exists for upgrading your
mailer to a smart mailer.  "Smail" was posted to mod.sources a while
back and will take care of your problems.  Pick it up...

Fred