Path: utzoo!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: can.uucp
Subject: Header breaking,munging,mangling,....
Message-ID: <159@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 11 Dec 88 16:38:28 GMT
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Distribution: can
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc. (CRL Division)
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I am encountering a particularly strange header munging.  Could someone
in the path: utgpu!utai!watmath!alberta please step forward and admit to
transforming "tony" to ":tony"?

| From: watmath!oha!oha_mailer_daemon
| Message-Id: <8812100121.AA27409@pembina.alberta.UUCP>
| To: alberta!watmath!neat.ai.toronto.edu!gpu.utcs.toronto.edu!gate!eci386!lsuc!clewis
| Subject: mail problem
| 
| Trouble sending mail at `oha',  Fri Dec  9 16:59:25 1988
| 
| ============ Transcript follows ============
|   :tony
| 0 alias errors
| No local user named ":tony"
| 1 delivery errors
| 1 total errors
| 
| ============== Message follows =============
| >From alberta!watmath!neat.ai.toronto.edu!gpu.utcs.toronto.edu!gate!eci386!lsuc!clewis Fri Dec  9 16:59:25 1988
| Received: by pembina.alberta.UUCP (5.52/3.14)
| 	id AA22952; Fri, 9 Dec 88 15:57:30 MST
| Received: from neat.ai.toronto.edu by watmath; Fri, 9 Dec 88 17:51:57 EST
| Received: from gpu.utcs.toronto.edu by neat.ai.toronto.edu with SMTP id 38023; Fri, 9 Dec 88 17:55:57 EST
| Received: from lsuc by gpu.utcs.toronto.edu via phone with UUCP id AA02190; Fri, 9 Dec 88 17:53:03 EST
| Received: by gate.UUCP (smail2.5)
| 	id AA12345; 9 Dec 88 15:16:05 EST (Fri)
| Received: by eci386.UUCP (smail2.5)
| 	id AA06068; 9 Dec 88 14:34:33 EST (Fri)
| X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (6.3.2.1 local 7/26/88)
| To: alberta!bruce, oha!tony
| Subject: Mailing problems
| Message-Id: <8812091434.AA06068@eci386.UUCP>
| Date: 	Fri, 9 Dec 88 14:34:33 EST
| From: watmath!eci386!clewis (Chris Lewis)
| 
| Can you tell whether this arrived at alberta with a colon in the username?

By the way, watmath you're *not* supposed to be touching "From:" lines!

Boy oh boy did someone scrag the "From" line...
-- 
Chris Lewis, Markham, Ontario, Canada
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