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- Path: sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!golem!davidf
- From: davidf@golem.uucp (David J. Fiander)
- Subject: Re: mail from SCO via SunOS has bad header
- References: <1317@bridge2.NSD.3Com.COM>
- Message-ID: <1992Sep06.213155.1386@golem.uucp>
- Keywords: bogus Return-Path:
- Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1992 21:31:55 GMT
- Lines: 43
-
- According to camerons@NAD.3Com.COM:
- >
- >Fellow netters,
- >Mail from my home site arrives at its destination bearing
- >an extra header item of the form:
- >
- >Return-Path: <myuname!user>
- >
- >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.
-
- Completely true.
-
- >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.
- >
- >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."
-
- UUCP is UUCP. What they might be complaining about is that
- they think that you are using a "dumb" mail system like pure
- UUCP. If you are using MMDF, then this is not the case.
-
- >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_.
-
- If the header is not in the outgoing UUCP queue files, then it
- is not your fault.
-
- >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.
-
- Since the header is not in your outgoing uucp queue, and they
- are running sendmail, then I would be forced to conclude that
- it is their fault.
-