v.wales@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA (01/23/84)
For some time now, whenever someone at LBL-CSAM has made a contribution
to the UNIX-Wizards mailing list, the "From" line of the header has been
munged. Here is a recent example (note particularly the lines I have
indicated with arrows on the left):
Received: From brl-gateway2.ARPA by BRL-VGR via smtp; 22 Jan 84 12:55 EST
Received: From Lbl-Csam.ARPA by BRL via smtp; 22 Jan 84 12:44 EST
Return-Path: <mo@LBL-CSAM>
Received: by lbl-csam.ARPA ; Sun, 22 Jan 84 09:45:37 pst
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 84 09:45:37 pst
==> From: Mike O'Dell@BRL-VGR.ARPA, mo@lbl-csam
==> MMDF-Warning: Parse error in preceeding line at BRL-VGR.ARPA
Message-Id: <8401221745.AA21328@lbl-csam.ARPA>
To: unix-wizards@brl
Subject: NULL pointers
Note that the "From" line in the above header is invalid according to
RFC822, since the first address (Mike O'Dell@BRL-VGR.ARPA) contains a
space in its "local-part". Further, of course, this first address is
incorrect, since Mike O'Dell is in fact not at BRL.
I assume the munging in question is probably taking place at BRL-VGR
(based on the "MMDF-Warning" line). I know it is not happening here
at UCLA-LOCUS, since we do not use MMDF and our mail handler does not
modify "From" lines of incoming ARPANET mail in any way.
On several occasions, I have asked various people at LBL-CSAM to send me
test messages so that I could see what their "From" lines looked like
(again, hoping to take advantage of the fact that my system's mailer
doesn't munge "From" lines). I have never succeeded in getting any
reply. I don't know whether this is because the people I have asked
thought I was a busybody or a crackpot, or because my messages simply
never arrived.
Can someone (at BRL and/or at LBL) explain and/or fix this problem?
-- Rich <v.wales@UCLA-LOCUS>
P.S. to MMDF gurus:
"Preceeding" is a misspelling. It should be "preceding", since the
base form of the word is "precede".