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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)
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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
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