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From: TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: mailx question
Message-ID: <90284.094041TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: 11 Oct 90 13:40:41 GMT
Organization: Youngstown State University VM system (YSUB)
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Our NCR Tower 32/700 with UNIX V 1.03 is working quite nicely
to send and receive mail via TCP/IP.  When it receives mail from
another machine the mail daemon handles it correctly.  A mail
header has the form:

      From root
      >From: otherguy@otherplace

The only problem is that with mailx if you ask for the headers,
all mail delivered via the mail daemon reports having come from
root rather than the actual sender.  If you use the reply option
then the mail does go the correct person.  For complicated reasons,
however, I need to extract the sender from the header line
rather than using the reply option.  Does anyone have any idea
why mailx is not correctly reporting the actual sender? -or,
any way to correct the problem?  (We observe that mail on our
RISC/6000's, on our Encore Multimax and on our UTS system all
report the correct information when asked for headers....)

Thanks in advance
Lou Anschuetz
   temngt23@ysub.ysu.edu
   temngt23@ysub.bitnet
   root@yfn.ysu.edu