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mail mode problem

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From: David R. Linn
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 1990 20:46
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I have a problem relating to mail mode in v18.55.  Mail is arriving
with the sender somehow changed into the first of the recipients; i.e.
I (drl) send a message to root and it shows up in root's mailbox
as coming FROM root.  I suspect that this may be related to some strange
interaction between emacs and sendmail.

I changed the binding of sendmail-program to "/tmp/doit", which is
simply a shell script that echoes its command line and standard input
to a window.  I then sent a message and watched the windoe to see what
emacs was feeding  sendmail.

When I call sendmail by hand with the exact arguments and input that
show up in the window, the message is delievered correctly.  Then I mv'ed
/tmp/doit away and made a softlink to /usr/lib/sendmail named /tmp/doit
and gave exactly the same input.  The message came to root's mailbox with
the wrong sender.

Any ideas?

	 David

David Linn, System Manager/Postmaster	   |INET: drl@vuse.vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt University School of Engineering|Phone: [+1] 615-343-6164
Post Office Box 3241, Station B            |Disclaimer:
Nashville, TN, USA  37235                  |  I speak only for myself.
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From: drl@VUSE.VANDERBILT.EDU (David R. Linn)
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Subject: mail mode problem
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Posted: Mon Jun 25 21:46:48 1990