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From: kurt@ibmarc.uucp (Kurt Shoens)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: UCB Mail tries to be too smart
Summary: UCB Mail should stop rewriting addresses
Keywords: UCB Mail, sendmail, address rewriting
Message-ID: <701@ks.UUCP>
Date: 22 Feb 89 07:34:16 GMT
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Reply-To: kurt@ibmarc.UUCP (Kurt Shoens)
Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose
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In article <885@ur-cc.UUCP> msir@cc.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) writes
about how UCB Mail rewrites addresses when doing reply.  In particular,
unqualified addresses (those that do not include "@host") get the host of
the From: field tacked on today.  Mark indicates that this behavior is
causing him problems and isn't necessary since all addresses in messages
from other sites are supposed to be qualified with the hostname.

Sounds like Mark is right.  At the time UCB Mail was written, there WAS no
sendmail to rewrite outgoing addresses, so it was felt necessary to do
the editing on reply that is now causing the troubles.  I doubt that
anything will break if Mark disables the address rewriting, as long as
all mail from outside the local host has qualified, internet style addresses.
In terms of the Right Thing thing, it feels wrong to me to have both
sendmail and Mail rewriting addresses; UCB Mail should stop doing so.

Kurt Shoens, IBM Almaden Research Center, ...!uunet!ibmarc!kurt