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- From: Mark.Purcell@pos.pub.uu.oz.au (Mark Purcell)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
- Subject: Re: Reply-To: rewrite
- Message-ID: <11-PCNews-124beta@pos.pub.uu.oz.au>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 15:10:4 GMT
- Organization: Me? Organized?
- References: <715016429@anthrax.cs.duke.edu>
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- jwt@duke.cs.duke.edu (Jeffrey W. Tannehill @ Duke University Computer Science Dept.; Durham, N.C.) once wrote....
- >
- > When receiving mail via a uucp connection our mail software modifies
- >the "Reply-To:" header on the message. For example, the header
- >
- > Reply-To: testuser@testhost.testdomain.test
- >
- >may be modified to be:
- >
- > Reply-To: hornet!duke!testhost.testdomain.test!testuser
- >
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- I find it a real pain in the ass the way some uucp sites will take a FQDN
- and modify
- it into a mess of UUCP addressing, which may or may not make sense at the
- other end. Usually they don't make any sense. So <replying> to mail
- does not work, amongst other problems.
-
- It's bad enough when sites munge the From: line but there is a saving
- grace which is the Reply-To: header which most will not munge. But if that
- starts getting changed then there is really no hope for mail getting back.
-
- I am of the opinion that if an address if a FQDN that it shouldn't be UUCP
- munged as a FQDN should make sense from anywhere :-).
-
- Any thoughts?
-
- Mark
-
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- Mark Purcell, 62/25 Market Street, SYDNEY NSW 2000. (02) 283 5598
- Mark.Purcell@pos.pub.uu.oz.au, msp@kralizec.zeta.org.au
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