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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: elm 2.2 pl16 gets wrong To: address
Message-ID: <1990Jun4.140819.25667@DSI.COM>
Date: 4 Jun 90 14:08:19 GMT
References: <1150@mgse.UUCP>
Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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marks@mgse.UUCP (Mark Seiffert) writes:
:I am running an archive server system and i get a lot of mail from
:all over the world, for some reason elm is pulling out an incorrect
:To: address from the following mail message;

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:From rex!brownm@hamlet.local Wed May 30 19:25:49 1990
:From: rex!brownm@hamlet.acc.uncg.edu (Michael L. Brown)
:To: archive%mgse@rex.cs.tulane.edu
:X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL16]

:[ message body deleted ]
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:When I went to reply to it, it says the To: line is
:"rex!brownm@hamlet.local (Michael L. Brown)" it is getting the mail
:address from the From_ line, and the name from the From: line. Do
:I have elm configured wrong or what?

Depending on how Elm is configured whether or not it will believe
the From: lines.  If you configure Elm to use the Reply-To: and
From: lines it will beleive them.  If you configure it not to,
it will use the From line.  However, something is wrong with your
MTA if the From line is not a proper address.  The From line should
always work, just perhaps not be optimal.  
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
Datacomp Systems, Inc.                          Voice: (215) 947-9900
syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd                        FAX:   (215) 938-0235