Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!RICEVM1!SCHAFER From: SCHAFER@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU (Richard A. Schafer) Newsgroups: bit.listserv.mailbook Subject: Re: ACK Problem Message-ID: <900111.164849.CST.SCHAFER@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU> Date: 11 Jan 90 22:48:49 GMT Sender: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Reply-To: MAIL/MAILBOOK subscription list Organization: Networking and Computing Systems, Rice University Lines: 27 Approved: NETNEWS@PSUVM Gateway In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 11 Jan 90 16:14:56 EST from On Thu, 11 Jan 90 16:14:56 EST Ben Chi said: >Following is an as-yet unread item in my UNREAD NOTEBOOK: >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Received: by ALBNYVM1 (Mailer R2.05) id 1239; Thu, 11 Jan 90 16:11:09 EST >Date: Thursday, 01/11/90 16:11:08 EST >From: "Ben Chi" >Subject: Test. >To: "B.E.C." >X-Acknowledge-To: "Ben Chi" > >A test. >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >When I read this item, the acknowledgement goes to (no closing ">"), which causes MAILER to burp. Any ideas about what's >wrong? > >The original mail was NOT generated by MAIL, but rather punched directly >to MAILER, which had no problem delivering it. No BSMTP envelope, however. >The same thing happens if the recipient address is BITNET rather than IP. I stared at this for a while, then finally realized what the problem is: you're not generating that X-Acknowledge-To header from Mail, but some other process! Mail does *not* put *anything* on the line except the address, i.e., there's no name phrase. Fix whatever code you have generating the X-Acknowledge-To to only put , and the problem will be fixed. Richard