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From: dsrich01@b.ee.engr.uky.edu (Dave Richardson)
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Subject: Re: Sendmail config problem
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Date: 6 Nov 90 21:44:19 GMT
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In article <1990Oct31.191907.23774@evax.arl.utexas.edu> measures@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Mark Measures) writes:
>I'm having a problem with the address generated when someone tries to 
>reply to a mail message.  I'm running Unix V 3.2.2 with Wollongong
>TCP/IP 3.01 on an AT&T 3B2/700.  The mail program is 'mailx.'  When
>a user receives a message using mailx (which I think is basically the
>mail program from BSD Unix) and tries to reply, the message is always
>sent back to root.  This is because the 'From:' line lists the sender
>as root.  I think the problem is in the sendmail.cf config file, but I
>have not been able to remedy it.  I would appreciate mail responses to
>this problem.  Thanks.

I, too, have had this problem.  The solution is to call the 800-number
hotline, and get the patch.  This problem only occurs when using mailx
with TCP/IP.

Later, all

				Dave
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