Subject: Inhibit Net Routing Info

From: Abraham Gutman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 15:21:38 -0500

Is there a way to ensure that all the internet routing info which is 
"added" to the body of a message is inhibitted on *outgoing* messages?  I 
have a feeling this is probably a setup problem of the people I am 
sending mail to (since I, using pine 3.91, am not getting it).

This is a problem for me because I am sending mail to people using 
cc:mail attached linked to the outside world using a gateway through 
sprintmail.  Sprint is used to get the message to the cc:mail postoffice, 
which in turn parses the first line(s) of the body of the message to get the 
local address where the message is going.  When all the routing info is 
appended to the message, the first line is no longer what the postoffice 
expects, and routes the message to the admin saying: unknown address.

[You may wonder why each user doesn't have full access to the net.  The 
answer is that these people are in Colombia where Internet access is not 
yet very easy to get...]

Any help, hints or pointers highly appreciated.

Abraham
[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (John Stanley)
Date: 25 Mar 1995 00:15:39 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, Farzad FARID <[email-masked]> wrote:
>Abraham Gutman ([email-masked]) wrote:
>: Is there a way to ensure that all the internet routing info which is 
>: "added" to the body of a message is inhibitted on *outgoing* messages?  I 
>: have a feeling this is probably a setup problem of the people I am 
>: sending mail to (since I, using pine 3.91, am not getting it).
> You have no control over these fields. They are automatically added
>by each mail gateway your mail goes through (the sendmail program usually).
>The problem lies in the sprintlink gateway.

That is not correct. Sendmail does not do anything to the body of a
message. The routing information that sendmail and smail and other SMTP
mailers adds is in the headers.

>: Any help, hints or pointers highly appreciated.
> Well, try asking your friend if their mail gateway is RFC822
>compliant. This is indeed a setup problem on their side.

Obviously, if their software is looking for recipient addresses in the
body of mail, it is not RFC 822 compliant.

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From: [email-masked] (Farzad FARID)
Date: 23 Mar 1995 21:22:53 GMT

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