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- From: mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith)
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no> <4f8bnm$i0@news.uit.no>
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- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 96 07:01:37 EDT
- Organization: Only if you insist...
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- In article <4f8bnm$i0@news.uit.no> kjelli@stud.cs.uit.no (Kjell Irgens) writes:
- > In article <mbs.485p@adastra.cvl.va.us>,
- > mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us (Michael B. Smith) writes:
- > >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.
-
- I haven't tried to convince you to change. I've simply pointed out the
- relevant portions of the standard.
-
- > 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.
-
- Whether it would be written exactly as it was -- probably not. But there
- would undoubtably (in my mind) be both headers representing the same thing --
- where it came from, and where responses should go to.
-
- > 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.
-
- It is one of the more frequently asked questions. But it generally
- only happens when someone hasn't read the documentation.
- --
- // Michael B. Smith
- \X/ mbs@adastra.cvl.va.us
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