Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ee.rochester.edu!msirota From: msirota@ee.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: sendmail headers Message-ID: <1991May13.214859.2468@ee.rochester.edu> Date: 13 May 91 21:48:59 GMT References: <2356@carroll1.cc.edu> <1991May13.211644.8746@mp.cs.niu.edu> Reply-To: Mark Sirota Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering Lines: 28 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 reason for this is that the last time you either started the sendmail daemon (sendmail -bd) or froze the configuration (sendmail -bz), you did it as yourself rather than as root. Kill the daemon, freeze it as root, and then restart it as root. In article <1991May13.211644.8746@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes: > 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. This happens on BSD and BSD-derived systems as well, not just on System V. I've made this mistake plenty of times... I don't know if it's the freezing stage or the daemon-starting stage that's important; I never bothered to figure it out. -- Mark Sirota - Department of Electrical Engineering Systems Staff University of Rochester, Rochester NY Internet: msirota@ee.rochester.edu UUCP: {decvax,garp,harvard,hombre,rutgers}!rochester!ur-valhalla!msirota