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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Multiple mail users sharing one user code
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.185038.18876@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 14 Nov 90 18:50:38 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.092146.20233@actrix.co.nz>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Nov12.092146.20233@actrix.co.nz> paul@actrix.co.nz (Paul Gillingwater) writes:

>I'm trying to set up elm to be used under a bbs.  All users login as
>bbs, so this is their euid.  The bbs software exports
>LOGNAME=Paul.Gillingwater into the environment, and sets
>MAIL=/apc/usr/Paul/Gillingwater/mail as well.

>The problem is that I want the From: line on messages to read:

>From: Paul.Gillingwater@bbs.actrix.co.nz

>Unfortunately, they come out as:

>From: bbs@actrix.co.nz

>Can anyone suggest a way to hack on elm to make this happen?  Of
>course it should only fake the domain for bbs users.

You must have had to hack on your mailer transport to make it do
the delivery for the bbs users.  Why not add the equivalent hacks
to supply the From: line in the MTA based on something in the
environment and simply configure ELM to leave off the From: line?

This will localize the changes and make it easier to undo should
you decide to provide something closer to a normal unix environment
in the future.

If you are using smail 3.1, the changes would be trivial - I have
a modification that makes it emulate the SysV use of LOGNAME for
the From_ (and From: if it doesn't already exist), in case you
want that as a starting point.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us