Re: How to get visible_name to work?

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From: Leslie Mikesell
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:19

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In article <1992Sep12.014606.12754@silogic.uucp> markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT)) writes:

>I got quite a few responses to my previous post about smail 3.1's
>visible_name, et. al. and how to get my outgoing mail such that its
>computed return address would be correct. 

>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>
>X	X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]       ^

Smail doesn't rewrite the From: header if it already exists except for
qualifying the domain for non-local deliveries.  Perhaps ELM is
configured to add the From: line itself instead of letting the
transport (smail) do it.  If that's the case you need to recompile ELM.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us

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