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From: jch@hollie.rdg.dec.com (John Haxby)
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Subject: Re: "From" field in mh
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.085310.17043@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 08:53:10 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.194825.2784@cs.cornell.edu>
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In article <1991Mar27.194825.2784@cs.cornell.edu>, chinch@cs.cornell.edu (Shirish Chinchalkar) writes:
|>     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".

I can't comment on the behaviour of UCB mail because I
don't know it well enough. However, I do know that the
standard ULTRIX sendmail config file has a tendency
(well, it does it all the time) to use abbreviated host
names instead of FQDN's.  Fixing this is easy
in principle (explicitly define $w to be the FQDN), but
in practice rather hard.  A good middle-ground approach
seems to be to replace $w with $j in selected mailer-specific
rulesets.
-- 
John Haxby, Definitively Wrong.
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