Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!munnari.oz.au!bruce!monu1!monu6!out117w From: out117w@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (y ng) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Sendmail Problem Summary: Incorrect From address in sendmail Message-ID: <1990Dec5.025234.27675@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> Date: 5 Dec 90 02:52:34 GMT Organization: Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melb., Australia. Lines: 43 Incorrect FROM address are generated by sendmail when mailing to host not in the same sub-domain as shown in the following transcript. The correct FROM address should be yman@fees.vut.edu.au. We still can send and receive mail. The only problem is that the recipent of our mail can not use the reply command. $ mail -v out117w@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au ....... out117w@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au... Connecting to monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (tcpld)... monu6.cc.monash.edu.au Sendmail 5.61/1.34 ready at Wed, 5 Dec 90 12:47:53 +1100 >>> HELO fees.vut.edu.au monu6.cc.monash.edu.au Hello fees.vut.edu.au ([140.159.1.161]), pleased to meet you >>> MAIL From: ... Sender ok >>> RCPT To: .... The recipent sees the following Message 1: From yman@fees Wed Dec 5 12:48:01 1990 Received: from [140.159.1.161] by monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (5.61/1.34) id AA22153; Wed, 5 Dec 90 12:47:54 +1100 Received: by fees.vut.edu.au (5.65+/1.34) id AA00628; Wed, 5 Dec 90 11:50:23 +1000 Date: Wed, 5 Dec 90 11:50:23 +1000 From: yman@fees (yauman NG) Message-Id: <9012050150.AA00628@fees.vut.edu.au> To: out117w@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au ..... Any hint and fix to this problem will be gratefully accepted. Many thanks P.S. We are running SR10.2 with BSD4.3 as the default environment. Sendmail version 5.65+/1.34 and named. Yau Man NG Dept of Elect Eng, FIT Victoria University of Technology Melbourne, Australia yman@fees.vut.edu.au