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

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#97

Author: Jim Miller
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 17:25

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Hello,
   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?
	id aa17701; Wed, 5 Aug 92 12:41:07 EDT
Received: by andy.bgsu.edu (5.65/4.0)
		id AA08861 ; Wed, 5 Aug 92 12:18:59 -0400
Date:  Wed, 5 Aug 92 12:18:59 -0400
From: Jim Miller<jmiller@andy.bgsu.edu>
Message-Id: <9208051618.AA08861@andy.bgsu.edu>
To: jmiller@wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us
Subject: test
Status: R
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andy.bgsu.edu is the FQDN of my mail server, it's uucp name is bgsuvax.
My machine that this message is received on is FQDN wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us,
and UUCP name wendy.

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.

Thanks for any help you can offer.  I apologize if this is a FAQ, but
I looked through all the articles on this newsgroup, and on uunet in 
usenet/comp.mail.misc.

Jim Miller
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Re: Where does "somewhere!..." come from ?

#98

Author: Neil Rickert
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 18:32

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In article <BsItqs.8pB@andy.bgsu.edu> jmiller@andy.bgsu.edu (Jim Miller) writes:
>Hello,
>   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?
>...

>andy.bgsu.edu is the FQDN of my mail server, it's uucp name is bgsuvax.
>My machine that this message is received on is FQDN wendy.bowlgreen.oh.us,
>and UUCP name wendy.
>
>Where does that somewhere! come from?

  Login in to wendy, cd to the directory containing 'rmail', and do:
	strings rmail | grep somewhere

  I bet you will find where it comes from.

  This usually means that the incoming UUCP mail message has a bad
"From " line.  It is expecting:

	From jmiller Wed Aug  5 12:41:04 1992 remote from bgsuvax

and perhaps it will also accept either of:

	From jmiller Wed Aug  5 12:41:04 1992 remote from andy.bgsu.edu
	From andy.bgsu.edu!jmiller Wed Aug  5 12:41:04 1992

but it is probably getting

	From jmiller@andy.bgsu.edu Wed Aug  5 12:41:04 1992

Re: Where does "somewhere!..." come from ?

#109

Author: Kenji Rikitake
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 11:25

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In article <1992Aug5.183247.9878@mp.cs.niu.edu>
	rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>	From jmiller@andy.bgsu.edu Wed Aug  5 12:41:04 1992

Is this "From " line really bad and unacceptable? Mail messages in 
many *.jp sites have this "From " header even if those sites 
forward them to UUCP sites. I'd like to know how sendmail is 
supposed to be working.

// Kenji
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