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From: abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Problems with Sendmail
Message-ID: <9010190416.AA23839@image.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 04:16:20 GMT
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Folks:
	I'm having a rather odd problem with sendmail under Ultrix V4.0.
	It has to do with replying to mail once its received. For some
	reason, when an incoming message has a From: line that
	looks like:

From: abstine@polymer.che.clarkson.edu (Art Stine)

					^ some string

	when doing a 'r' in mail, I get a To: line that looks like:

To: on abstine@polymer.che.clarkson.edu

    ^ where did THIS come from?? (on two of my other V4.0 systems, that
	string says: mon instead of on

	
	This seems to happen on all of our V4.0 systems except 1...
	that one uses the /usr partition from one of the other
	systems which has the problem. The systems are all stock -
	no mods to sendmail.cf... it doesn't seem to matter whether
	there are any .mailrc files or not...

	If I try to send mail the brute force way (ie, telnet to port 25)
	and construct a msg w/o the () string, then the reply
	doesn't contain this bogus string...

	Frankly, I'm baffled... anyone have any clues?

	thanks much

art stine
sr network engineer
clarkson u
abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu