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From: sob@soma.UUCP
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Subject: Re: From: lines ...
Message-ID: <2862@soma.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 17:38:10 EST
Article-I.D.: soma.2862
Posted: Mon Jan 26 17:38:10 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Jan-87 05:44:42 EST
References: <1139@ndmce.uucp> <16950@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <1159@ndmce.uucp>
Reply-To: sob@cortex.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Organization: Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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In article <1159@ndmce.uucp> tp@ndmce.UUCP (Terry Poot) writes:
>
>1) The only mail standard with a serious foothold in this user community
>(RFC822) forbids From:  munging. 
>
>                                     smail conforms to the standard given
>above and is available to everybody, whether they run sendmail or not. It
>is not necessary to give up sendmail to run smail.
>
It should be noted that smail does enforce conformance to RFC 822 in that 
it does not supply missing but necessary headers in mail that is missing them.
smail is mainly an router as is uumail. sendmail (and mmdf, I think) enforce 
the RFC by supplying those headers if they are missing. Therefore, it is 
overstating the capabilities of smail to say that it conforms the RFC 822
(or RFC 920 or RFC 976).