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From: chinch@cs.cornell.edu (Shirish Chinchalkar)
Subject: "From" field in mh
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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1991 19:48:25 GMT
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    When I use either "dxmail" or "xmh" to send mail from the Decstations,
the "From" field appears as "From: userid@machine" instead of
"From: userid@machine.domain". The problem with this is that the recipient
cannot reply to it using the "r" option in mail, because the domainname
is missing. This does not happen if I use the ordinary UNIX "mail".

    Since both dxmail and xmh are just interfaces to mh, I think the problem
is with some mh configuration. I checked the access times on files in
/usr/new/lib/mh and found that only the files "mtstailor", "MailAliases" and
"components" were accessed. I looked at the man pages of programs such as
send, post, mh-tailor, and tried a few things such as putting
localname: machine.domain in mtstailor and changing the hostname to
machine.domain using the command "hostname" as root; but to no avail.

    sendmail.cf seems to be ok (but then I am no expert) because /usr/ucb/mail
seems to work just fine.

    What am I missing?

      Thanks.

             Shirish.