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From: nomann@diku.dk (Ole Nomann Thomsen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: How to control the From: header in EXOS-mail ??
Keywords: From:
Message-ID: <1990Feb21.153803.16819@diku.dk>
Date: 21 Feb 90 15:38:03 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Department Of Computer Science, University Of Copenhagen
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Hello, I have a problem with my Excelan 3.5 mailer: Whenever I send
something to another host, the From: header is no good. Suppose f.x.
I am logged in as root on host "fek" and mail something

My mailer then produces the header:

From: root

When it should be:

From: root@fek

The result is that the first host to se the From: header appends its own
name, like this:

From root@<some_other_host>

And then the message is actually presented to the recipient as coming 
from root on that other host, which is clearly wrong.
	I have read the manual countless times, and tried lots of things:
setting OMIT_SELF to TRUE
setting TRY_OMISSION to FALSE
and so on, but nothing seems to do the trick.

If you are able to say "Aha, the poor guy just needs to ...", please respond.





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- Ole,

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