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From: honey@umix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: routing in the user agent
Message-ID: <1738@umix.cc.umich.edu>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 22:08:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: umix.1738
Posted: Sun Sep 27 22:08:55 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 01:37:52 EDT
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Reply-To: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
Organization: Center for Information Technology Integration, Univ of Michigan
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Summary: a historical note

steve bellovin, who wrote the first version of pathalias, also
distributed hooks to the prevailing UA and MTA of the day.  even 
there, users had coarse-grained control over routing, as in the
following .mailrc fragment.

# trust originating addresses, don't trust reply addresses.  
if receive
    set pathalias="smart"
else
    set pathalias="dumb"
endif

	peter