chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (12/01/88)
According to dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough): >One of my MAJOR bitches about uucp is that it seems impossible to get mail >anywhere with a sensible return path. [...] > >I know that <dg%lakart.uucp@harvard.harvard.edu> >will hit me from Internetland, but it seems that along the way some mailers >have a tendancy to add extra stuff onto the start of this. Is there any >way to get them to LEAVE IT THE HELL ALONE. UUCP is only a transport, like SMTP, and has nothing to do with your gripe. Your problem is twofold: 1. Sendmail includes the ability to arbitrarily rewrite addresses, even valid ones; this is Evil and Rude. 2. Postmasters who don't realize that (1) is Evil and Rude, and who don't reconfigure Sendmail to get rid of it. Sites running Smail (any flavor) or a stock System V or Xenix mail system will not rewrite your addresses. (Or at least they won't prepend their site names to a <user@host> address. Smail 3.1 will prepend the site name to a pure bang path, but I think that's harmless.) Complain to the postmasters at the Evil and Rude sites. They may listen. -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers.
eam1612@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu (12/06/88)
what do you want yes realyy no why do you ask