Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!cak@Purdue.ARPA From: cak@Purdue.ARPA (Christopher A Kent) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: "Return-Path" vs. "From" Message-ID: <8402231923.AA01007@merlin.ARPA> Date: Thu, 23-Feb-84 14:23:00 EST Article-I.D.: hou3c.325 Posted: Thu Feb 23 14:23:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Feb-84 02:49:06 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 20 To: eric%ucbarpa@Berkeley.ARPA (Eric Allman) Cc: header-people@MIT-MC.ARPA In-Reply-To: Your message of 16 Feb 1984 1705-PST (Thursday). <5638.31.445827921@ucbarpa> Eric, I stand only mildly rebuked. I agree that it is a bad thing to perpetuate the insanity that is Unix mail. (Unix vendors could note that they would do well to concentrate on developing a totally new mail system -- grad student hacking doesn't seem to be enough.) Unfortunately, the envelope information that you pass around is misleading to the many other programs that parse Unix mailboxes. It would have been simple to just use the true From address, rather than the SMTP sender information, which is of little use to 90% of the users. Programs which filter incoming mail (like msgs) present confusing return/from addresses. It seems like the whole thing could have been solved/avoided by fixing sendmail rather than having to hack on each of the programs that gets confused. chris ----------