Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: Re: Sendmail problem: UUCP headers Message-ID: <232@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Aug-84 18:40:59 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.232 Posted: Fri Aug 10 18:40:59 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 03:02:20 EDT References: <745@hou3c.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 25 No, that's not "the right thing" to do. Of course, I should mention that RFC822 requires that all such addresses in mail headers (From, To, Cc, etc) should be in the user@domain form, so that nobody has to go around rewriting them. So to conform to 822, you should be sending out @ addresses. (This is the direction being taken by the UUCP project. Having to change headers at every machine the mail passes through is an ugly proposition which is best avoided.) According to "de-facto" convention, there really aren't any rules. Any given machine does pretty much whatever it wants. So by this rule, I suppose you're fine too. However, some software takes the position that addresses without @'s in them are as typed on the sending host, and must be interpreted relative to that host. Thus if you send mail to decvax!foo and it arrives on decvax reading To: foo there will be software that will assume this means "foo on host yale". (Assuming yale sent it.) Mark