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From: rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: In defense of sendmail
Message-ID: <43081@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 12:10:51 EST
Article-I.D.: beno.43081
Posted: Tue Jan 20 12:10:51 1987
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References: <1137@ndmce.uucp> <16890@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1139@ndmce.uucp>
Sender: news@seismo.CSS.GOV
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA
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Summary: you can do it right or you can do what will work

Seismo "incorrectly" prepends seismo! to the From: line of outgoing
uucp mail.

This is technically wrong. However, the reason that we do it is simple.
If we didn't, the vast majority of sites could not respond to the
From: line.

So, we do what works (welcome to the real world).

If I had control over everyones mailer (e.g like the DDN NIC has
over the arpanet mailers) I'd send correct From: lines. However, life
isn't that simple.

We do not prepend seismo! to arpanet and direct connection smail sites
that we know can handle "real" 822 addresses.

---rick (Life is a continuing series of kludges)