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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail headers
Message-ID: <1991May13.211644.8746@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 13 May 91 21:16:44 GMT
References: <2356@carroll1.cc.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <2356@carroll1.cc.edu> pwickman@carroll1.cc.edu (Paul J Wickman) writes:
>	I have a problem with my mail headers.  We currently have two
>From lines at the top off all the headers, one that looks like 'From'
>and another that looks like 'From>'.  The second one looks fine, but
>for some reason all mail that comes in from off campus has my logname

  The first 'From ' is being put their by your delivery agent, traditionally
/bin/mail.  The second one is being put their by 'sendmail', and the '>'
escape is being added by /bin/mail.

  You may have problems with your mailer flags (the F= operand to the line
beginning 'Mlocal' in sendmail.cf).  If you add 'n' to the flags, you will
eliminate the second 'From'.

  The fact that your logname is on the first 'From ' suggests that you are
the one who last started sendmail.  It sounds as if you have a SysV system.
It is quite possible that your version of /bin/mail will not accept the
operands needed to tell it the true sender.  If this is the case you will
either need a different delivery agent, or you will have to put up with the
problem.  Note that the 'From:' header, which is normally used for automatic
replies, should still be correct.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115                                   +1-815-753-6940