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Re^5: Smail 3.X

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From: Anders Rolff
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 23:33
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rolff@mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff) writes:

>peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>>No, I didn't say that. Look at the messages again. Smail 2.5 read my name
>>(peter) from the From_ line on ficc, and copied it to the From_ line that
>>was on the message sent to texbell. Smail 3.1 ignored the From_ line and
>>invented one (From Postmaster...) and put it on the From_ line that it
>>sent to sugar.

>Hm.. I took a closer look at uucp/smail and found that you're correct.
>I'm not certain, for the moment, if the erroneous From_ line comes from smail
>or uucp.

You're not getting tired are you? Here's my third version:

Neither Smail nor Uucp behaves incorrectly; the problems at my site
are all due to a buggy smtp.

--Anders
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Message-ID: <110@mosh.UUCP>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!mosh!rolff
References: <18806@cfctech.UUCP> <104@mosh.UUCP> <7341@ficc.uu.net> <106@mosh.UUCP> <7362@ficc.uu.net> <109@mosh.UUCP>

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!sunic!mosh!rolff
From: rolff@mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re^5: Smail 3.X
Keywords: smail
Message-ID: <110@mosh.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 23:33:58 GMT
References: <18806@cfctech.UUCP> <104@mosh.UUCP> <7341@ficc.uu.net> <106@mosh.UUCP> <7362@ficc.uu.net> <109@mosh.UUCP>
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