Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!dsinc!syd From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Problems with From: and SCO's MMDF Message-ID: <1991May13.010540.26214@DSI.COM> Date: 13 May 91 01:05:40 GMT References: <1991May12.122703.5353@odbffm.incom.de> Reply-To: syd@DSI.COM Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc. Huntingdon Valley, PA Lines: 28 oli@odbffm.incom.de (Oliver Boehmer) writes: >I'm using SCO Unix 3.2.0 and MMDF as my MTA together w/ elm 2.3 PL11. >I'm having a problem with the From: header: elm only builds something like >this >From: Oliver Boehmer >but it should be >.... >I compiled the hostname into the program, still the same, then I omitted >the domain and told elm that my hostname is odbffm.incom.de, but still the >same. Elm is probably not building the From: line. Usually if a smart MTA is being used (like MMDF) Elm lets it build the From: line. So, first, check the config.sh file to see if Elm is building the line or the MTA is. The line is d_noaddfrom='define', if its define Elm is not adding the from. Second, It is the MTA's responsibility, most times, to qualify addresses, so Elm would be correct passing the address in as unqualified and expecting the MTA to handle it. Lastly, as many have complained, Elm uses the format addr (Comment) not the comment format, so I really suspect that the From: line is from the MTA. -- ===================================================================== Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator Datacomp Systems, Inc. Voice: (215) 947-9900 syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd FAX: (215) 938-0235