sdroppers@pbs.uucp (Seton Droppers) (06/09/90)
I am wondering what should "really" be put in the "From" line of our mail. We have just recently registered as the domain pbs.org (We used to be simply a UUCP site) and exchange news and mail via the DECUS UUCP software on a VMS 5.2 system. When I send mail through our local mailer such that it stays "within" my site I get a from line for my message (se example 1) with my local mailbox and the domain (sdropers@pbs.org). When I send mail to either of to neighbors and back the from line gets changed to the form "othersite!pbs.org!sdroppers" (see examples 2 and 3). Is this really correct? I have had one remote site request that my neighbors not "mung" the from line, and this makes lots of sense. Also, reading paragraph 4.4.1 (page 21) of RFC #822 I wonder what an "authenticated" machine address refers to? Thanks ever so much. Seton -- Seton Droppers -- "Anything that I say is my opinion and not my employer's." Public Broadcasting Service, 1320 Braddock Pl. Alexandria, VA 22314 (Domain: sdroppers@pbs.org) (UUCP: ...{uupsi,vrdxhq,csed-1,ida.org}!pbs!sdroppers) (Voice: 703/739-5100) (VAX/VMS running DECUS UUCP 1.1, ANU News 5.9C) ---Example 1--- From: UUCP%"sdroppers@pbs.org" 8-JUN-1990 08:06:01.86 To: sdroppers@pbs.org CC: Subj: Testing uucp%"sdroppers@pbs.org" Received: from pbs by pbs.org (DECUS UUCP w/Smail); Fri, 8 Jun 90 08:06:00 EDT Received: by pbs.org (DECUS UUCP w/Smail); Fri, 8 Jun 90 08:03:33 EDT Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 08:03:33 EDT From: Seton R. Droppers <sdroppers@pbs.org> To: sdroppers@pbs.org Subject: Testing uucp%"sdroppers@pbs.org" This is a test message. 8-JUN-1990 08:03:30.11. ---Example 2--- From: UUCP%"uupsi!pbs.org!sdroppers" 8-JUN-1990 10:30:51.15 To: pbs!sdroppers CC: Subj: Bounce Test uucp%"uupsi!pbs!sdroppers" Received: from uupsi by pbs.org (DECUS UUCP w/Smail); Fri, 8 Jun 90 10:30:47 EDT Received: from pbs.UUCP by uu.psi.com (5.61/3.1.060790-Performance Systems International-Albany) id AA08115; Fri, 8 Jun 90 09:53:20 -0400 Message-Id: <9006081353.AA08115@uu.psi.com> Received: by pbs.org (DECUS UUCP w/Smail); Fri, 8 Jun 90 08:47:28 EDT Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 08:47:28 EDT From: Seton R. Droppers <uupsi!pbs.org!sdroppers> To: pbs!sdroppers Subject: Bounce Test uucp%"uupsi!pbs!sdroppers" This is a test message. It should go out to uupsi and back. 8-JUN-1990 08:47:24.44. ---Example 3--- From: UUCP%"vrdxhq!pbs.org!sdroppers" 8-JUN-1990 10:53:47.64 To: vrdxhq!pbs!sdroppers CC: Subj: Bounce test uucp%"vrdxhq!pbs!sdroppers" Received: from vrdxhq by pbs.org (DECUS UUCP w/Smail); Fri, 8 Jun 90 10:53:43 EDT Received: from pbs.UUCP by vrdxhq.verdix.com (4.12/5-June-90) with UUCP id AA13753; Fri, 8 Jun 90 09:58:03 edt Message-Id: <9006081358.AA13753@vrdxhq.verdix.com> Received: by pbs.org (DECUS UUCP w/Smail); Fri, 8 Jun 90 08:48:21 EDT Date: Fri, 8 Jun 90 08:48:21 EDT From: Seton R. Droppers <vrdxhq!pbs.org!sdroppers> To: vrdxhq!pbs!sdroppers Subject: Bounce test uucp%"vrdxhq!pbs!sdroppers" This is a bounce ttest. It should to to vrdxhq and back. 8-JUN-1990 08:48:16.71.
root@yclept.chi.il.us (Root) (07/04/90)
In article <ao5ccf.76f@wang.com> fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
[These comments have been heavily abbreviated.]
+In fact, I'm surprised that there are "many" hosts
+still left that don't handle MXs. Independent of UUCP gateways, there
+are lots of hosts that really are on the Internet but have MX records for
+themselves pointing to other hosts (because they don't run sendmail
+daemons or whatever). These machines wouldn't be able to get mail from
+MX-ignorant hosts either.
+
+---
+Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com
+1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz
I have seen in recently distributed operating systems, versions of sendmail,
should as 5.14, that do not appear to handle MX records. I have replaced
sendmail on several machines with version 5.64 to obtain MX record capacity.
Randolph J. Herber,
@ home: {att|mcdchg|laidbak|clout|obdient|wheaton}!yclept!rjh,
rjh@yclept.chi.il.us