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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
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Subject: whether to prefix myhost! onto the From: or not..
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Date: Tue, 21-Apr-87 11:53:24 EST
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In article <364@micropro.UUCP> mojo@micropro.UUCP (Morris Jones) writes:
>Yeah, but smail doesn't (can't?) prepend myhost! on the From: line.
>What am I supposed to do?  And what is bsmtp?

Smail has nothing to do with it.  The sendmail.cf file distributed
with smail (really built by making smail) is what does not prepend
hostnames.  And rightly so, by my way of thinking.  The chnage to make
it prepend hostnames is trivial.  But, no, I'm not going to tell you.

For years now different mailers have used different From lines to
compose return addresses.  Some have done it correctly.  Some have
not.  Some have in a very limited environment (e.g., assuming only
UUCP bang addresses).   What is being discussed (for the umpteenth
time) attempts to set a different standard.  That is to say, every
site that handles a mail message should prepend their hostname! ...
But what if they are not a UUCP site?  What is being suggested
requires that any site that gateways (is that a verb?  I know...
anything can be nowadays) mail out to the UUCP Mail Net must reform
the From: address into bang notation.  This is chauvanistic.
Just tacking on a host name yields addresses like:
     host1!CSNET-RELAY.ARPA!username%siednarb%brandeis.csnet
(A real address from a From: line.)

Fred