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Re: How to get visible_name to work?

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From: Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT)
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:42
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In article <1992Sep13.070606.27825@Veritas.COM> tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
>In article <1992Sep12.014606.12754@silogic.uucp> markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT)) writes:
>>I've had no luck fixing the problem though.  Here is a header generated
>>by smail 3.1.19 (X and tab added) :
>>
>>X	From: Mark DiVecchio (K3FWT) <markd@pgsn1.sony.com>
>>
>Smail3.1, until recently, has not been able to From generate lines such
>as this.  Either you have a modified version of smail3, or elm generated
>the From line itself.  The former case is certainly possible, since
>there were quite a few unofficial 3.1.19 variants that floated around.
>However, even if you were running an unofficial variant, it is doubtful
>that your config file could generate such a From line.  Most likely the
>culprit is elm.  I suggest you check your elm compilation-time and run-
>time configuration files.
>-- 
>	tron |-<=>-|		ARPAnet:  veritas!tron@apple.com
>      tron@veritas.com		UUCPnet:  {apple,pyramid}!veritas!tron

BINGO!

To all net.helpers: my problem indeed was that I needed to configure elm
to 'hardwire' the host name and not use uname or hostname. 

Thanks to all who replied.
-- 
Mark DiVecchio, Silogic Systems, 619-549-9841                       K3FWT
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From: markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT))
Subject: Re: How to get visible_name to work?
Message-ID: <1992Sep14.034222.4433@silogic.uucp>
Organization: Silogic Systems, San Diego, CA
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