Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!cbatt!ihnp4!ptsfa!lll-lcc!seismo!usndvax!usndvm!T6YXN2@IER0VM From: T6YXN2%IER0VM@usndvm.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: mail problems Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 11:23:47 EST Article-I.D.: IER0VM.EF2349A8CD.AA02349 Posted: Wed Feb 25 11:23:47 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Mar-87 09:47:44 EST References: <6661@alice.uUCp> Lines: 86 eturn-Path: T6YXN2@IER0VM.UUCP Julian-Date: 56 Date-Received: Wed, 25 Feb 87 10:23:54 CST Date-Posted: Wed Feb 25 10:24:25 CST 1987 Sender: root@usndvax.ARPA (root) Reply-To: T6YXN2@IER0VM.UUCP Followup-To: net.wobegon Errors-To: unix-wizards@BRL.ARPA Flames-To: /dev/null Organization: Cow Systems Applications Network Devices Research, Inc. Real-Organization: Cash-Flow Computers, Inc. Actual-Organization: University of Southern North Dakota Part-Time-Organization: A & P Grocery, Hoople Last-Logged-In: Thu Feb 12 11:11:09 on ttyi06 Full-Name: Thomas G. Yoxon, II Job-Title: Professional Student Shoe-Size: 10 1/2 US-Mail-Address: PO Box 11, Lonesome, ND Car-License-Plate: HAC K3R Drivers-License-Number: M771092 Social-Security-Number: 499-71-3006 Office-Extension: x2-3579 Home-Phone: (701) 555-1212 Calling-Card-Number: 5491 Weather: Partly Cloudy, Clearing Friday Phase-Of-Moon: New Favorite-Color: Blue Capital-Of-Assyria: Nineveh Cuteness-Quotient: 165 *grin* In article <6661@alice.uUCp>, mvs@alice.UUCP writes: >I'm experiencing some problems with the UNIX* electronic >mail system. I hope somebody on the net can help me! >Some mail items that I send seem to get corrupted in >very strange ways. Often many lines of what appears >to be debugging or logging information find their >way to the beginning of my mail item! I'm pretty sure >that this isn't happening on my machine. Example: > > % mail alice!mvs > hello > . > % mail > 1 messages > From alice!mvs Thu Feb 19 12:23:45 1987 > hello > > ?dq > % > >If I send the same mail item to a friend at another site >he receives something quite different! Lines of the form > > Received: by xxx.yyy.UUCP (4.12/4.7) > id AA12424; Mon, 16 Feb 87 14:09:06 est > >are often added. I've omitted the names as to not embarass >the people at that site (Hello Laura!). Surely these should be >written to a log file and NOT into my mail item! Often the >"From" line gets horribly mutilated. '%' signs crop up, which >suggests to me that someone is screwing up a printf somewhere. >Some of the output looks like what happens when I printf bad >pointers! Occaisonally a greater-than-sign '>' is prepended >to a line in the body of the message, and sometimes the top >of the item gets completely scrunted, particalularly my chess games. >Can anyone help me pinpoint the problem. I wouldn't want to >go screaming to the system administrator if it wasn't his fault! > >Also my mail sometimes goes on the road for a couple of days. >I've sent mail to a friend down the corridor and judging from the >baggage tags it has been holidaying at some other machines? Where >exactly is "seismo", it doesn't seem to be on my floor. Who is >"mc" and where is his vax? Maybe it's down in the comp center? >Aren't there maps of these things? > >Please post your answers for obvious reasons! > >_-_-_-_-Mark The following is a pre-recorded message from Thomas G. Yoxon, II: I have received your message of Wed Feb 25 01:55:51 CST 1987 correctly. I am currently out of town. I will not be reading my mail until I get back. I will be back sometime on Thursday February 19. This is the only message you will receive.