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.mailrc and who's who

#9013
From: Kyle Jones
Date: Tue, 26 May 1992 15:57
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elk@cblpo.att.com writes:
 > I have this little problem with VM (It occurs in both 5.32 and 4.??).
 > OK, I'm assuming it is in VM since my other mailer (not part of
 > gnuemacs) doesn't exhibit this behavior.

VM doesn't try to tell the MTA who the sender is, so this problem
looks to be unrelated to VM.  Your posting does not contain
enough information for me to deduce what is causing the problem

 > It goes like this: whenever I have one person multiply listed in an
 > alias, mail sent by me to that alias makes me look like THEM.
 > 
 > For example, a few lines from my .mailrc
 > 
 >     alias dbms pes rak gmg
 >     alias qp   pes rlb
 >     alias grp  dbms qp
 > 
 > OK so far.  When I send mail, then, to "grp" everyone gets the mail,
 > and just once.  But, the mailheader has been mangled so as to make it
 > look like the mail was sent by "pes".

Which mail header has the wrong information?  What mail devliery
agent does your systems use?  (Sendmail?  MMDF?  SMAIL?)  A copy
of a batched message would be useful.
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