Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!fts1!michael
From: michael@fts1.UUCP (Michael Richardson)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Replacing colons with periods in To-addresses
Summary: Why is uunet changing it at all?
Keywords: sendmail.cf,uunet
Message-ID: <155@fts1.UUCP>
Date: 11 Mar 90 19:18:40 GMT
References: <18538.25edbe1d@ccavax.camb.com>
Reply-To: michael@fts1.UUCP (Michael Richardson)
Organization: Fountain Technical Services, Ottawa, ON
Lines: 28

In article <18538.25edbe1d@ccavax.camb.com> tinkelman@ccavax.camb.com writes:
>I have a question about a sendmail.cf rule.  But first the background.
>
>Recently I received mail from a friend at Digital who was using a new
>mail system.  It arrived with an illegal return address, albeit one that
>I, as a human, could understand.  It was 
>
>	<uunet!decwrl!koala.enet!mrgate::add::koala::x4::graff>

  I'd really like to know why uunet insists on playing with the the
internal (not envelope) From: and To: at all! (Usually deleting the
(name) portion of the From: so that I may have an address but no name
to associate it with...)

	My machine has all the maps, I understand @ addresses. And so do all the
machines from myself to uunet.
	This wouldn't be such a problem if every little bit of mail didn't go through 
uunet because of their screwed up `DEMAND' markings in their map entries. Do they
really dial all these people?
	My solution is to to `pathalias -d uunet'
	On some entries it adds a hop, on many it actually removes a redundant hop through
uunet. 

-- 
  :!mcr!:
  Michael C. Richardson
HOME: mcr@julie.UUCP SCHOOL: mcr@doe.carleton.ca WORK: michael@fts1.UUCP
I never liked staying in one place too long, but this is getting silly...