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Article #604Have you ever seen "somewhere" inserted in an address?
From: Clark Morgan APD x4813
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 18:21
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 18:21
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Hello. We're running HoneyDanBer UUCP in a BSD environment on
Apollo HW (SR10.1). We have three external company-related sites
that send us e-mail via UUCP. These sites often send us mail that
arrives with a From: header that looks like so:
From: <site>.mentor.com!somewhere!<user>
Needless to say, replying to this mail does not work so well.
Has anybody out there seen this problem before and do you
know what's causing it? I have run the following programs
through /usr/ucb/strings:
sendmail
uuxqt
uucico
smail
rmail
uux
The only program that proved interesting was rmail:
[11 ~] /usr/ucb/strings /bin/rmail
@(#)rmail.c
3.1 - 87/07/15
Usage: rmail user ...
/dev/null
From
>From
%s %s
remote from somewhere <----
remote from
remote from %s
%s -ee -f%s -i
/usr/lib/sendmail
pclose: status 0%o
I am aware that incoming mail is handled via this flow of control:
uuxqt -> rmail -> sendmail -> local_delivery_agent
Is it possible that "rmail" is adding "somewhere" to these
addresses? If so, why?
Help...
--
Clark O. Morgan -- Mentor Graphics Corp.
cmorgan@mntgfx.mentor.com {backbone}!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!cmorgan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!cmorgan From: cmorgan@mentor.com (Clark Morgan @ APD x4813) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.sys.apollo Subject: Have you ever seen "somewhere" inserted in an address? Message-ID: <1989Sep14.182104.15144@mentor.com> Date: 14 Sep 89 18:21:04 GMT Distribution: na Organization: engr Lines: 48