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MX From: field question

#276
From: Karin Nicholson
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 16:25
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Hi fellow MX-users,

First of all, thanks to all of you who replied to my request for info
on installing MX 3.1 on UCX 2.0 on VMX 5.5-1.  I did install it and
am pleased to announce that it works nicely.  Nice documentation, too!

I do have one teensie quirk that I need to get around and am turning
to you because I am getting nowhere quickly.  Whenever I send mail to
anyone, whether within or outside my domain, the From field shows up
as simply user@node with the domain info missing in both VMS and SMTP
From fields.  Recipients cannot simply reply to my message.  The info
does show up in the Sender field.  I tried to fix this by adding the
following logical:

   define/sys/exec mx_vmsmail_from_format "<!AS@!AS.fit.edu>"

This caused the SMTP version of the From field to be bogus (see
below), but did not solve the problem.  

 From:   SMTP%"nicholson@iguana"
 To:     nicholson@roo.fit.edu
 CC:     nicholson@iguana
 Subj:   hi

 Received: from iguana [192.42.239.3] by ROO.FIT.EDU
            with SMTP-VMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 4 Nov 1992 14:25 EDT
 Received: by IGUANA.FIT.EDU (MX V3.1C) id 44; Wed, 04 Nov 1992 14:24:54 EST
 Sender: nicholson@IGUANA.FIT.EDU
 Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 14:24:52 EST
 From: "Karin, FIT VAX Mgr & FlaSC DECUS LUG Chair"
       <nicholson@IGUANA.FIT.EDU.fit.edu>
 Reply-To: nicholson@iguana
 To: nicholson@roo.fit.edu
 CC: nicholson@iguana
 Message-ID: <009631D5.5AB4ECC0.44@IGUANA.FIT.EDU>
 Subject: hi

When I added the following logical:

   define mx_reply_to "nicholson@iguana.fit.edu"

I did get the complete address in the Reply_To field, but again both
From fields just had user@node info.

Is there any way to force the full internet address to show up in the
From fields?  If so, could someone please tell me what the magic
command or configure option is?  Please forgive my ignorance if the
solution turns out to be blatantly obvious or right in front of my
face.  Incidentally, I did RTFM.  Thanks in advance for your help.

-- 

 .-.|     |    |     | |    /------------------\   Karin Nicholson
 |  |-..-.|/.-.|-..-.|*|/  < karin@zach.fit.edu >  VAX Sys Mgr @ Florida Tech 
 `-'| |`-'|\`-'| |`-'|||\   \------------------/   Florida Space Coast LUG Chair
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From: karin@zach.fit.edu (Karin Nicholson)
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Subject: MX From: field question
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