uucp and preserving Reply-to: how?

[mikebw at bilow.bilow.uu.ids.net (Mike Bilow)]

Dale R. Worley wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 DRW>    From: Robert Luoma <luoma at capybara.pn.com>

 DRW>    At present, I receive my email via uucp,
 DRW>    but I would like to know how to keep
 DRW>    the "Reply-to:" intact (I want to force
 DRW>    an internet address without sendmail munging it).

 DRW>    So, what do I do?

 DRW> Generally, the mail headers are munged by the sending
 DRW> machine into what it thinks will be able to get back to it
 DRW> from the receiving machine.  (This is clearly a design flaw,
 DRW> since only the receiving machine really knows that.)  So,
 DRW> ideally, you should have the sendmail on the machine that is
 DRW> sending you the mail fixed.

Note also that is illegal to use both a '!' and a '@' in a mail address, such
as aaaa!bbbb at cccc.  The UUCP side will parse this as "send to aaaa, which will
send it to bbbb at cccc."  The SMTP side will parse this as "send to cccc, which
will send it to aaaa!bbbb."

Nearly all modern UUCP software fixes this correctly, except for SunOS.
 
-- Mike