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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Replacing colons with periods in To-addresses
Message-ID: <1990Mar13.022102.14408@intercon.com>
Date: 13 Mar 90 02:21:02 GMT
References: <18538.25edbe1d@ccavax.camb.com> <155@fts1.UUCP>
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Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
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In article <155@fts1.UUCP>, michael@fts1.UUCP (Michael Richardson) writes:
>   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...)

As I understand it, uunet's sendmail.cf rewrites domain-style addresses into
bang paths whenever it thinks it's talking to a site that only understands
UUCP mail, whether that site in fact does or not.  A while back I asked
much the same question and they said, "Oh, we'll change you from UUCP to
INTERNET" or some such.  Since then, no more header munging.  Perhaps some
site along the way is mistakenly listed as UUCP-style...

--
Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation

"Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly upon our own point of view."
	--Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Return of the Jedi"