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From: j1whalen@bach.helios.nd.edu (Jon Whalen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Strange mail header from Eudora-posted-mail
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.134344.26054@news.nd.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 13:43:44 GMT
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To: net.mac_to_unix.communication.gods,

We get a very odd thing when mail is sent via Eudora. In one of the lines
explaining the delivery path that mail came thru (you know, the stuff in the
mail header), there are lines like this:

>Received: from GUESSWHO (banquo)
>        by trc.trc.tellabs.COM (4.1/smail2.5/09-08-89)
>        id AA05281; Tue, 26 Mar 91 17:06:38 EST
>Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 17:06:36 EST

Note that banquo is the name associated with the ip adress of the mac 
(in /etc/hosts on the sparc nis server) and we hand-assign ip addresses to
the macs on our network.

The problem is that occasionally when someone in the outside world replies
to mail from someone on our network, the reply is delivered to more than one 
person here. 

What's the GUESSWHO mean?? What's going on? Can this be fixed? 
Will the sun rise tomorrow?

--jon (confused@confounded.state.edu)
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* Jon Whalen @ Notre Dame University    Internet:j1whalen@handel.helios.nd.edu *
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