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From: chet@arc.UUCP (Chet Wood)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: emacs sendmail committing forgery
Keywords: SunOS4.0, GNU Emacs, sendmail
Message-ID: <284@arc.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 89 17:31:10 GMT
References: <276@arc.UUCP> <12678@ihlpy.ATT.COM>
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Reply-To: chet@arc.UUCP (Chet Wood)
Organization: Advansoft Research Corp, Santa Clara, CA
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In-reply-to: pdg@ihlpy.ATT.COM (Paul D. Guthrie)

In article <12678@ihlpy.ATT.COM>, pdg@ihlpy (Paul D. Guthrie) writes:
>In article <276@arc.UUCP> chet@arc.UUCP (Chet Wood) writes:
>>When sending mail to people
>>with a local address (e.g. "user"), from emacs running on a subsidiary
>>machine, the message arrives claiming to be _from_ the first person
>>on the "To: " line. An address of the form "user@machine" doesn't show
>>the problem. Nor does the problem show up when using bsd "mail" for
>>sending.
>
>We also see this problem, and I have also tried debugging this, 
>from the shell, with no success. 
>
>Any help would be appreciated.

benson@odi.UUCP (Benson Margulies) posted the definitive reply in
comp.emacs (for some reason.) Here is what he said in
<314@odi.ODI.COM>:

:This is a bug in Sunos 4 sendmail. If getlogin() return 0, which it
:does when stdin/out/err is a pipe of a pty without a utmp entry,
:sendmail goes batshit. We hacked mail.el to add an explicit -f. 
:Sun has acknowledged the bug, and promises a fix "sometime."

Thanks, Benson. Also, I'd like to thank Stephen Gildea and Anton Rang
for their help.
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