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- From: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM (Cameron Spitzer 408/764-6339)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: mail from SCO via SunOS has bad header
- Keywords: bogus Return-Path:
- Message-ID: <1317@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM>
- Date: 1 Sep 92 02:23:38 GMT
- Sender: news@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM
- Reply-To: camerons@NAD.3Com.COM
- Organization: 3Com Corp
- Lines: 40
- Nntp-Posting-Host: gilligan.nad.3com.com
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- Fellow netters,
- Mail from my home site arrives at its destination bearing
- an extra header item of the form:
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- Return-Path: <myuname!user>
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- This line doesn't do anybody any good,
- and causes some destinations or intermediate sites to bounce my mail
- with various "protocol errors."
- My local mail expert tells me the Return-Path item is illegal and
- shouldn't appear in my mail at all while it is traveling.
- When I mail from my home to here at work,
- the extra line appears in the middle of the header, between the "Received by"
- from my uucp neighbor and the "Received: from" by the gateway machine here.
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- My uucp-mail neighbor first explained I am using a "dumb" uucp
- and I should get a "smart" one,
- and then they said they are still "investigating."
- I have examined my outgoing messages in
- /usr/spool/uucp and there's no Return-Path: line in them.
- I found no mention of dumb nor smart in the Nutshell Guide
- _Managing UUCP and Usenet_.
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- My site is an AT-compatible running SCO System V/386 3.2.0.
- It's got a domain name registered with the NIC.
- It looks to me like AT&T SVR3.2 HDuucp, mailx, and mmdf.
- I dial my neighbor up on an ordinary 2400 bps Hayes-compatible.
- I don't know anything useful (in this context) about SunOS.
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- My neighbor (whose name I'd prefer not be mentioned here) is a cluster
- of Suns running a stock SunOS.
- They don't know anything useful about SCO, AT&T, or mmdf.
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- Has anyone solved this problem? I'd much appreciate any advice. You can
- mail me here, and I will summarize to this group. Thanks.
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- Cameron Spitzer, posting from work as camerons@nad.3com.com
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