ÿml>>> AIUI, the format must be a valid email address format...

 ÿTK>> That is not true.

 ml> i'm talking about on the t-bird side of the fence...

So do I. That's where my investigation started this time. I dont know
exactly where smapinntpd finds the 'from thing', but if REPLYADDR is
present it seems to be used. And it can be (almost?) anything, like in
this message, and TB shows the From line ok.

Most ftn messages dont have this REPLYADDR kludge, so I was thinking
about presenting something for nntp readers.

 ml> not really... my current solution doesn't crash/hang on me all the
 ml> time... TTBOMK, other various problems are completely eliminated as
 ml> well... especially things like the problems that arise when purging and
 ml> renumbering areas or even just having areas locked while maint or
 ml> tossing is being done ;)

GEcho/mbutil in my OS/2 system can pack and purge without renumbering.
Sqpack from Husky renumbers automatically.. But it is really not needed
to purge with the huge amount of harddisk anymore. ;)

'Tommi

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