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- From: kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 19:55:34 GMT
- Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
- Sender: kjelli@hstud6.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens)
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- <2186.6597T158T1665@stud.cs.uit.no> <mbs.47hu@adastra.cvl.va.us>
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- In article <mbs.485p@adastra.cvl.va.us>,
- mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith) writes:
- >> >So -- you call it kludgy that GRn conforms to RFC-822? I don't.
- >> I call it kludgy that you have to resort to Reply-To: to get your mail to the
- >> correct address, yes. Please explain me the advantages of this.
- >
- >You quoted the relevant part: conformance to Internet standards.
- >As per RFC-822 From: is just that -- where a message is from. And
- >Reply-To is where you wish a reply to go.
- >
- >I consider it broken to be done any other way. As do the standards.
-
- Oh shit, this posting must be broke then! No machine exists named
- stud.cs.uit.no. I agree that the rfc states that the address must be a
- machine. But as there are absolute no problems involved in not using a machine
- name, I see no reason to. Maybe I'll add a Sender: field in the next Thor
- release to identify the machine the mail was sent from, but I will not use the
- machine name in the From line.
-
- At the time rfc822 was written, it was probably common that the non-name part
- of the mail address of a user was the same as the machine name. Today
- workstations and ppp are common, and I doubt that this would be a part of the
- standard if it had been written today.
-
- That said, you still think it is userfriendly that the user must "manually"
- make a Reply-To line with inetutils? How often do you get questions
- concerning this? We have not received one single question about "dynamic ip
- problems" since we made the TCP/IP module for Thor.
-
- >\X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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