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