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Subject: Re: none
From: Rich Pieri <rich . pieri @ prescienttech . com>
Date: 27 Oct 1997 10:32:05 -0500
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Sandy Cash's message of "Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:08:14 -0600 (CST)"
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>>>>> "SC" == Sandy Cash <sandy@psa.pencom.com> writes:

SC> Would you care to quote the relevant section of RFC822?  According to
SC> section 4.4, the only fields considered Originator fields are:  From,
SC> Sender, Reply-To, Resent-From, Resent-Sender, and Resent-Reply-To.
SC> Subject is covered under sections 4.7/4.7.1, "Other Fields"/"Subject".

It is a more general case that an extant header not be changed by anything
other than the agent that created the header (though mailbox rewriting for
canonicity is allowed under SMTP).

If you wish to treat Majordomo as the originator, then you need to generate
a new set of headers.  The new From header needs to point at majordomo, or
the list-owner mailbox, since these are the responsible agents.  If you go
with the latter then you must eliminate the Sender header.  But now it
becomes impossible to send a reply to the person who initially posted the
message since his mailbox is no longer in the headers.

I think that the foolishness of this tack is readilly apparant.

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-- 
Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@prescienttech.com> / Happy Fun Ball contains a liquid
Sysmonster, Unix Wrangler                / core, which, if exposed due to
Prescient Technologies, Inc.            / rupture, should not be touched,
I speak for myself, not PTI or SWEC    / inhaled, or looked at.



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