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From: karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Problem with Gnu Emacs rmail on an AT&T 3b1
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Date: 3 Feb 88 18:20:22 GMT
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In-reply-to: wilber@alice.UUCP's message of 2 Feb 88 04:04:48 GMT


You're probably going to have to muck around in the rmail lisp.  When
the rmail code hunts through the headers looking for relevant things,
it fails to find a From: unless you're using a proper mailer - a lot of
smaller machines understandably don't have such proper mailers, and so
there is no From:.  So the rmail lisp looks at the next likely
candidate, the initial From_ line, finds "uucp" there, and begins to
believe at that point that "uucp" sent it to you.

The way to change this would be to convince the rmail lisp code that,
on finding no From: but a valid From_ line (claiming uucp), it should
recursively hunt for >From_ lines until it gets to the last one, and
take the implicit From: line from that.

Alternatively, you could force everyone with whom you correspond to
bring up a decent mailer.  Smail is the obvious choice for SysV boxes;
I've heard of sendmail implementations for SysV, too, but have never
used one myself.  If all of your correspondents use such a decent
mailer, then there will always be From: lines, and your problem goes
away.
-=-
Karl