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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
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Keywords: did I err ??	(really two problems)
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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