Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!osh3!chip From: chip@osh3.OSHA.GOV (Chip Yamasaki) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: Problems with From: and SCO's MMDF Message-ID: <1991May14.054741.477@osh3.OSHA.GOV> Date: 14 May 91 05:47:41 GMT References: <1991May12.122703.5353@odbffm.incom.de> Organization: U.S. D.O.L - Occupational Safety & Health Admin. Lines: 23 In <1991May12.122703.5353@odbffm.incom.de> 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. I went through mailmsg2.c, where the headers are being built, but I >didn't get it (to many #ifdef for my mind... ;-} ) >How do I have to set up elm so that this won't happen? I could be wrong, but I don't think the problem here is Elm. Try it from /bin/mail and see if the same thing happens. I think the problem is with your MMDF mmdftailor file. Check the MLNAME and MLDOMAIN fields. You may find them blank. Also, are you checking the address from a local machine or a remote machine? -- -- Charles "Chip" Yamasaki chip@oshcomm.osha.gov