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Article #136SOLVED - Where does "somewhere!..." come from?
From: Jim Miller
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 02:57
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 02:57
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First of all, I would like to thank everyone who responded to the my question: > My system is adding the keyword "somewhere!" to the From: line of >incoming messages, and I do not understand why. >Here's a sample message: >------------- >From somewhere!andy.bgsu.edu!jmiller Wed Aug 5 12:41:08 1992 > ^^^^^^^^^^ Where does this come from? >Received: from somewhere by wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us > ^^^^^^^^^ and this? >Where does that somewhere! come from? >I am running SCO UNIX 3.2.2 with the MMDF package as supplied by SCO. >My mail server is running Sendmail on 4.3 BSD. It turns out that the problem is caused by the "From " line in the message received via uucp. My "From " line contained "jmiller@andy.bgsu.edu" which my rmail didn't like. As was pointed out by more than one person, there is a problem with rmail as shipped by SCO. The solution (short of having my mail server do something different with the "From " line) was to create a shell script named "rmail" that set the ACCTSYS environment variable and then executes the real rmail binary: ------------------ : ACCTSYS=$UU_MACHINE export ACCTSYS exec /usr/bin/rmail.orig $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 ------------------- This seems to work OK for me. :-) Thanks again, everyone! Jim Miller -- /* Jim Miller * Internet: jmiller@andy.bgsu.edu * * * (prefer): jmiller@wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us * * * UUCP: ...!osu-cis!bgsuvax!wendy!jmiller * * Bowling Green State University * BITNET: JMILLE4@BGSUOPIE */
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Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!bgsuvax!jmiller From: jmiller@andy.bgsu.edu (Jim Miller) Subject: SOLVED - Where does "somewhere!..." come from? Message-ID: <BsqywI.D8r@andy.bgsu.edu> Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh. Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 02:57:53 GMT Lines: 46