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From: james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: ISC update
Message-ID: <624@uudell.dell.com>
Date: 28 Dec 89 05:15:23 GMT
References: <8912191952.AA12532@decwrl.dec.com>
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In <8912191952.AA12532@decwrl.dec.com>, paine@rust.dec.com (Willy Paine) wrote:

> I am still getting wrong sender's address (either uucp or root) instead
> of true sender's name on all incomming uucp mail.  I am still looking
> for help.   Xenix, SCO Unix and even DEC Ultrix are beautiful mailing
> system.

> I still have serious mail header problem (sendmail may be a big
> problem).

Do "strings /bin/rmail" and look and see if you can find anything that
looks like "-f%s".  If you can't, and /bin/rmail is handing mail to
sendmail for delivery, then /bin/rmail is the problem.  If sendmail is
not presented the -f switch, it assumes that the user who ran sendmail
is the sender.
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James R. Van Artsdalen          james@raid.dell.com       "Live Free or Die"
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