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Subject: Re: Sender: and error interception (was Re: Creating Lists)
From: Brent Chapman <brent @ GreatCircle . COM>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 16:43:33 -0800
To: List-Managers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:26:07 -0500

#  Hmm, I've always thought that Sender: should be left alone when going
# through a mailing list, and that the mailing list should just rewrite
# the envelope from address (SMTP Mail From:, UUCP 'From ') to itself.

No, RFC822 makes it pretty clear that's backwards.  The agent (the
mailing list software in this case) should rewrite the "Sender:" field
at will, but should NOT rewrite the From: line.

The 'From ' line is a UUCP/Sendmail abomination that I basicly just
ignore.


-Brent
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