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1 total messages Started by Marcus Ranum Thu, 09 Jul 1987 12:57
mail from 'getty' and other unusual names (using sendmail)
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Author: Marcus Ranum
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1987 12:57
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2 things:

1) I've been doing some hacking on on our local sendmail.cf
file, and consequently I don't know if this is my fault or not:

	I sent myself mail from one of our systems (across one IPC
link and one UUCP link) and by the time it got to me, it was from

'getty@host.UUCP'

I have no idea who getty is - and can't help but wonder if somehow
this is Mr. Etc Getty, of binary fame. Anyone seen anything like 
this happening before ?

2) Our return addresses always get munged into something resembling
Spam. While a user who knows his uucp addressing has no problem
generating a return address if needed, the 'reply' function in
ucbmail is totally confused. Is this a sendmail problem ? I noticed
that the sendmail doc says something to the effect that the 'From'
address undergoes the same transformations as the 'To' address.
Is this what's happening ? Pointers to a fix would be appreciated.

--mjr();
-- 
If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical,
go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I get as crude as possible. These
days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire
to crudeness...			         -Johnny Mnemonic
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