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SOLVED - Where does "somewhere!..." come from?

#136
From: Jim Miller
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
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 *				  * (prefer): jmiller@wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us *
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From: jmiller@andy.bgsu.edu (Jim Miller)
Subject: SOLVED - Where does "somewhere!..." come from?
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Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 02:57:53 GMT
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