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!linus!decvax!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!hou3c!cak@Purdue.ARPA From: cak@Purdue.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: "Return-Path" vs. "From" Message-ID: <8402071306.AA15144@merlin.ARPA> Date: Tue, 7-Feb-84 08:06:00 EST Article-I.D.: merlin.8402071306.AA15144 Posted: Tue Feb 7 08:06:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 22:34:02 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 15 To: Rudy.Nedved@CMU-CS-A.ARPA Cc: header-people@MIT-MC.ARPA In-Reply-To: Your message of 7 Feb 84 0049 EST. <07Feb84.004916.EN0C@CMU-CS-A> Would someone please grab Eric Allman, give him a swift kick, and point him at this dialogue? His sendmail program insists on using the string supplied in the SMTP MAIL FROM:<> command as the "Unix-style" from line, which most Unix mail readers pay attention to in preference to the RFC822 From: line when generating a reply address. It is a completely different bogosity that the situation with Unix mail readers comes up at all, but that is a historical dreg and not Eric's fault. But the fact that he ignores it is incomprehensible. Cheers, chris ----------