Subject: Re: Stripping From: headers.

From: "Silas K.W. Denyer" <[email-masked]>
Date: 16 May 1996 22:40:46 GMT

Further information on this particular problem! We are running a cluster of SGI
Indys, with one acting as the local mailhost. All the workstations should throw
mail at the mailhost without From: headers, which will be inserted by the
mailhost as part of the forwarding.

Mail then goes to a departmental mail server, which aliases the
[email-masked] address to become a
[email-masked] (the first is source routed for a start, which
doesn't comply with the RFCs, whilst the aliased name is neater and more
convenienct, since it allows for users to change where they receive their
mail).

So, the question remains: how do I stop Pine (v3.89 - where can I get a
compiled copy of v3.9 for Irix 5x?) putting From: headers on the messages?

Regards

Silas Denyer
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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 May 1996 19:03:56 -0700

> compiled copy of v3.9 for Irix 5x?) putting From: headers on the messages?

You don't.  What you're essentially saying is, "my mailer has a kludge to
do something useful when the user runs a broken program that doesn't
generate From:  headers, how can I break Pine to take advantage of this
kludge?" 

The right thing to do is to make your mailer play ball with programs that
are not broken.  Then, instead of having a kludge, you have a generally
useful facility.

There is a patch to sendmail.cf floating around that will do this; it
makes sendmail work with both broken and non-broken programs.

-- Mark --

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