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from: Paul Edwards
date: 1997-05-31 00:04:52
subject: X-Comment-To

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On 1996-12-03 08:33, Robert Heller of 1:321/153{at}fidonet wrote:

RH> From: heller{at}deepsoft.com (Robert Heller)

RH> Paul Edwards ,
RH> In a message on Sat, 30 Nov 96 08:26:09 -0500, wrote :

PE>> Michael + Robert, as the official internetter-clutterer-uppers in here, 
PE>> can 
PE>> you
PE>> tell me whether you use X-Comment-To or To in order to get your silly 
PE>> internet
PE>> messages into fidonet properly.  BFN.  Paul. 
PE>> 
PE>> 

RH> ifmail's news => EchoMail converter expects to see
"X-Comment-To" and uses 
RH> the value of this line to fill in the FTS-0001 "TO" field.
 This is for 
RH> news articles sent as EchoMail.  When sending E-Mail as NetMail, ifmail 
RH> expects to use the "To:", "Cc:", etc. fields. 
The TO field in incoming 
RH> EchoMail is used to form the "X-Comment-To" field.  This
is all hard-wired 
RH> into ifmail "tosser/scanner" code.


Ifmail is a unix-only program, otherwise Jeff could use this.  And before
you ask, no, I can't run it myself, because what would I then do with the
fidonet packets produced???  BFN.  Paul.
@EOT:

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