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auto-reply question: choosing addresses

1996-10-02 10:54:28

Here is the header information from an email message received by my  
autoresponder (minus the ">"s of course)

From cris(_at_)nesbittburns(_dot_)ca  Mon Sep 30 12:22:07 1996
X-POP3-Rcpt: luomat(_at_)nerc1
Received: from keeper.NesbittBurns.ca (keeper.nesbittburns.ca  
[192.139.71.50]) by nerc1.nerc.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id  
LAA27944 for <luomat(_at_)nerc(_dot_)com>; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:25:41 -0400
Received: from risdev (localhost.nesbittburns.ca) by  
keeper.NesbittBurns.ca (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20493; Mon, 30 Sep 96  
11:25:37 EDT
Sender: cris(_at_)nesbittburns(_dot_)ca
Message-Id: <324FE67A(_dot_)18F(_at_)NesbittBurns(_dot_)ca>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 11:25:46 -0400
From: Cristian Cserveny <rtsys(_at_)nesbittburns(_dot_)ca>
Organization: Nesbitt-Burns
X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (X11; U; HP-UX A.09.04 9000/826)
Mime-Version: 1.0
To: "Timothy J. Luoma" <luomat(_at_)nerc(_dot_)com>
Subject: send-ascii dwrites
Status: O
X-Status:

The auto-responder sent a reply back to:
 "cris(_at_)nesbittburns(_dot_)ca" (which is in the "From " and "Sender:"  
lines) vs
 "rtsys(_at_)nesbittburns(_dot_)ca" (which is in the "From:" line).

The user in question says that according to RFC822 (4.4.4.   
Automatic Use of From / Sender / Reply-to) this is not the proper  
behavior.

I grabbed the auto-responder email address using:
        
        FROM=`formail -rtzxTo:`

which I believed to be correct way to do this

Can anyone explain to me what happened?  Is 'formail' wrong?  Am I  
using it wrong?  Is the guy who complained wrong?

My guess is that 'formail' is smart enough not to grab 'Sender:' if  
that is put down in RFC822, but perhaps it prefers the "From " line  
over the "From:" line when choosing addresses?

Thanks
TjL

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