steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington) (12/08/89)
Based on John Chew's "Inter-Network Mail Guide," I recently tried to send
a note to someone whose only e-mail address is on Compuserve. BOING!
When it left my system, it was addressed like so:
To: 73607.1231@compuserve.com
From: steve@thelake.UUCP (Steve Yelvington)
Reply-To: pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve
So what happened to this mail? It bounced at hal.cwru.edu with this error
message:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>> RCPT To:<73607.1231@uccba.uc.edu>
<<< 550 <73607.1231@uccba.uc.edu>... User unknown: Not a typewriter
550 <uccba!73607.1231@hal.cwru.edu>... User unknown
I was fairly certain that the person to whom I had addressed the mail was
not a typewriter, and gratified to have my grip on reality verified by
hal, but I am quite confused about uccba.uc.edu and what it has to do with
Ohio-based Compuserve.
Hal very politely returned my mail intact. Then I looked at the header:
To: 73607.1231@compuserve.com
From: steve@cis.ohio-state.edu (Steve Yelvington)
Reply-To: wuarchive!swbatl!pwcs!stag!thelake!steve@mailrus.cc.umich.edu
This is the first time I've been teleported to Ohio State. Once I was
teleported to Apple Computer, which was almost as surprising.
Fingerprints were left by:
cwjcc.INS.CWRU.Edu
saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu
tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
mailrus.cc.umich.edu
wuarchive.wustl.edu
swbatl.sbc.com
pwcs.StPaul.GOV
stag.UUCP
I regularly have mail pass through wuarchive, swbatl, pwcs and stag
without anything horrid happening.
I don't mind the rewriting of Reply-To:, since it was done correctly, but
who would ever have a good reason to rewrite the From: line?
Do I need to include X-Really-From-Before-Header-Mangling: ?
-- Steve Yelvington at the (almost frozen enough to skate) lake in Minnesota
UUCP: ... pwcs.StPaul.GOV!stag!thelake!steve