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From: fritchie@thor.stolaf.edu (Scott Fritchie; Systems Programmer)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Screwey 'r'eply addresses
Summary: 'r'eply Osterizes some reply addresses
Keywords: UCB-mail reply mixup
Message-ID: <1616@thor.acc.stolaf.edu>
Date: 19 Mar 89 07:54:50 GMT
Sender: news@thor.acc.stolaf.edu
Reply-To: fritchie@thor.stolaf.edu (Scott Fritchie)
Organization: St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Lines: 54

Ever since we joined the Internet, we've been having some problems with
using the 'r' reply command in with UCB mail.  Occasionally, the addresses
the reply comes up with are horribly scrambled.  Here is a sample message:

  From fritchie@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu Sat Mar 18 15:13:14 1989
  Received: from agnes.acc.stolaf.edu by thor; Sat, 18 Mar 89 15:13:09 -0600
  Received: by agnes.acc.stolaf.edu; Sat, 18 Mar 89 15:13:00 -0600
  Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 15:13:00 -0600
  From: fritchie@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu
  Message-Id: <8903182113.AA11602@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu>
  To: fritchie
  Subject: Agnes test
  Status: RO
  
  foo

This looks like a fairly innocent message, but if you try to 'r'eply to it,
this is what 'mail' comes up with:

      5 fritchie@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu Sat Mar 18 15:13  12/384 "Agnes test"
  & r
  To: agnes.stolaf:fritchie@edu fritchie@agnes.acc.stolaf.edu
  Subject: Re:  Agnes test

I have NO idea where it comes up with the 'agnes.stolaf:fritchie@edu', but
it's not correct.  And it doesn't just happen at St. Olaf.  Here is another
message, mailed from here to umn-cs.cs.umn.edu, that confuses 'r'eply:

  >N  1 fritchie@thor.acc.stolaf.edu Sat Mar 18 14:28  11/413 "Reply test"
  & 
  Message  1:
  From fritchie@thor.stolaf.edu Sat Mar 18 14:28:53 1989
  Date: Sat, 18 Mar 89 14:26:26 -0600
  From: fritchie@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (Scott Fritchie; ACC @ St. Olaf College)
  To: stolaf
  Subject: Reply test
  
  ack
  
  & r
  To: thor.stolaf:stolaf@edu fritchie@thor.acc.stolaf.edu
  Subject: Re:  Header reply test

Everyone I know is very puzzled about why this is happening and why it only
happens some of the time.  Use of the 'R'eply to sender only command works
perfectly -- I have never seen it screw up.  I have done all of the work on
our Sendmail config. files; perhaps I've been doing something wrong when
revamping them.  Any help you could give would be greatly appreciated.
---
Scott Fritchie, Systems Programmer, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057
Email: fritchie@stolaf.edu -OR- ..{decvax,uunet}!stolaf.edu!fritchie
"Robbery, murder, bad breath, acne, drug addiction, sleep walking, profanity,
and losing car keys each happen more often at 85 degrees than any other
temperature.  That is why I live in Minnesota."