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From: kyle@xanth.UUCP (kyle jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: weather to defix yourhost! onto the From: in..
Message-ID: <881@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 25-Apr-87 19:31:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.881
Posted: Sat Apr 25 19:31:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 23:14:21 EDT
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Organization: odu computer science, norfolk, va
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> *WE* convert user@domain to the UUCP format of domain_or_system!user so that
> SYSV mailx can reply to it. IF smail is installed on a site, it will figure
> things out when sending mail to this sort of reply (isn't that what it was
> made for!?) IF smail isn't installed, then the local mailer will figure it
> out as well. NO conflict of interest, NO reported problems.

Rewriting user@domain to domain!user is fine... if you do it in the per-mailer
ruleset for the local mailer.  There is no reason to propagate your site's
local conventions just for the sake of a mail front-end.

Prepending myhost! to the From: line address (as a form of routing) has
already been rendered useless by the number of sites that no longer do so.

kyle jones, old dominion university computer science
ARPA: kyle@xanth.cs.odu.edu		CSNET: kyle@odu.csnet
UUCP: kyle@xanth.uucp	     -or-	{sun,harvard,mit-eddie}!xanth!kyle