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From: ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: MH 6.7 From: attribute problems
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Date: 7 Jan 91 02:52:51 GMT
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"Gordon C. Galligher" writes:
>I am running MH 6.7 on an SCO UNIX 3.2 system, and I am having problems
>with the 'From: ' attribute which is tacked on by post.  If I have
>	Signature: Gordon C. Galligher
>in my mh_profile, then it attributes:  From: Gordon C. Galligher <gorpong>
>on all mail.  Should this not be:  <gorpong@ping.chi.il.us> (which is my
>hostname).  In the mtstailor file I have 
>	localname: ping.chi.il.us
>	systemname: ping.chi.il.us
>and I have tried these, and ignoring these, and it makes absolutely no
>difference.  When a down site sees <gorpong> alone, it rewrites it to
>be <gorpong@that.site> which will clearly bounce.

Just a wild guess here, but what would happen if you took the "C." out of
your signature or surrounded your signature with double quotes?

	Signature: "Gordon C. Galligher"

Unquoted periods have been blamed for messing up many address headers.
It's also illegal to the RFC 822 spec for addresses.
________________________________________________________________________
Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services
ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)