Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!uwvax!oddjob!mimsy!aplcen!osiris!mjr From: mjr@osiris.UUCP (Marcus Ranum) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: mail from 'getty' and other unusual names (using sendmail) Message-ID: <1278@osiris.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 08:57:49 EDT Article-I.D.: osiris.1278 Posted: Thu Jul 9 08:57:49 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 06:46:37 EDT Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital Lines: 28 Keywords: did I err ?? (really two problems) Xref: mnetor comp.mail.misc:410 comp.mail.uucp:687 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