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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: bad address problem
Keywords: force header reedit
Message-ID: <5426@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 29 May 89 13:41:20 GMT
References: <3283@cs.dal.ca>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <3283@cs.dal.ca> silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) writes:
+A common problem for our machine is that ELM extracts incorrect
+return addresses.  I can live with this, but it is exasperating when ELM
+dumps the letter contents onto dead.letter without any warning.  If I
+edit the headers I get a warning that the address is bad, so I can fix it.

A misunderstanding here. It is your MTA, not ELM, which has rejected the
address and dumpted the message into dead.letter. ELM is limited by its
configuration as to its ability to second guess what addresses your MTA
will reject. There are a number of configuration options that govern
ELM's  treatment of both return addresses and addresses specified by the user.
I'm not completely familiar with all of them as we don't use many of them
here. But what you'll need to do is investigate why the MTA has rejected
the address and which configuration option might take care of that particular
sort of problem.
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX/C Reusable Code Library
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