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- From: madison@tgv.com (Matt Madison)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
- Subject: Re: Rewriting of From lines...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.172842.2971@news.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:28:42 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.100655.1175@dmc.com>
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- Reply-To: madison@tgv.com
- Organization: The Foundation for Dinner Peas
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- In article <1993Jan25.100655.1175@dmc.com>, munroe@dmc.com (Dick Munroe) writes:
- >I have a customer who has noticed that MX (3.1C) modifies the From: lines of
- >his messages, e.g.,
- >
- > From: foo@bar.baz (Name)
- >
- >turns into:
- >
- > From: <foo@bar.baz>
- >His specific complaint is that information is being lost in the translation,
- >the "(Name)" goes away. I haven't poured over the RFCs enough to know if this
- >sort of rewriting is reasonable, but why would MX be rewriting the From:
- >portion of the envelope? The other question is: should MX be preserving the
- >rest of the information in the line instead of just dropping it?
-
- What is the origin of the message? Are the address and comment syntactcally
- valid? MX does the best it can, including mapping comments into personal
- names when it can (although some would say that that is a dubious practice,
- because no direct mapping can be made for all cases). Can your customer
- provide more details about the problem?
-
- -Matt
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