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From: guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: From: lines ...
Message-ID: <11806@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 15:39:37 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 21 15:39:37 1987
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Summary: UUCP conventions don't say anything about From: lines, just From_ lines.

> While correct that 822 does not provide for slapping a sitename! on the
> front of the address, normal UUCP conventions dictate exactly that.

Nope.  UUCP doesn't know beans about "From:" lines, so UUCP conventions
can't dictate their format.  They do require you to somehow indicate the
full path that the message took to arrive at the destination, but that can
be done by munging the "From_" line or by adding all the "From ...  remote
from..."  lines to the front.

Some mail user agents may not be able to cope with that, but that's a
separate problem.  You can fix your user agents or ignore the addresses they
generate and generate reply addresses yourself.  (Neither is desirable; I'd
just like to be able to mail at "user@domain" and let the computer handle
all the drudgework, and never have to deal with "!"  in addresses ever
again.)