Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site heurikon.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff From: jeff@heurikon.UUCP Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Strange From headers Message-ID: <215@heurikon.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-Feb-84 14:58:34 EST Article-I.D.: heurikon.215 Posted: Sat Feb 11 14:58:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 15-Feb-84 05:25:51 EST Organization: Heurikon Corp., Madison WI Lines: 17 Does anybody know why some sites seem to mangle their "From" headers? I've seen consistant trouble with harpo, philabs and, now, qusavx. Here's what I mean. This is part of some mail headers: > From seismo!philabs!mcvax!jan Thu Jan 5 07:20:47 1984 remote from uwvax > From: uwvax!seismo!mcvax!jan (Jan Heering) > To: philabs!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff Why is "philabs" missing from the middle "from" header? A bug? This results in a lot of bounced replies. Sometimes there is clear evidence in the headers that the site in question was really on the route and not bypassed. Should the "From:" header be ignored in favor of "From"? -- /"""\ Jeffrey Mattox, Heurikon Corp, Madison, WI |O.O| {harpo, hao, philabs}!seismo!uwvax!heurikon!jeff (news & mail) \_=_/ ihnp4!heurikon!jeff (mail - fast)