Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!ge-dab!peora!tarpit!myoho!alfred!elliot From: elliot@alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Re: recieve mail from uucp instead of sender name Summary: Reconfigure elm to tell it you get valid "From:"'s Message-ID: <382@alfred.UUCP> Date: 28 Sep 89 17:58:23 GMT References: <8909271604.AA08698@decwrl.dec.com> Organization: Semi-private 3B1 - Orlando, FL Lines: 35 In article <8909271604.AA08698@decwrl.dec.com>, paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes: > > I am running ICS 386/ix System V and I am using Elm Mailer (without any > patches - I even dont know how). I am getting mail from "uucp" instead > of real sender address. I had this problem as well. If you run COnfigure again and answer "Yes" to the "Do you get valid From: & Reply-To:" question, I believe that will solve your problem. I have Elm 2.2 PL11 and smail 2.5 and I don't have any problems (Except when some systems use smail and some use stock bin/mail). That brings up another point. Is there any way to get elm to look at the first from line that smail put in your header?? From uucp Thu Sep 28 07:21 EDT 1989 >From sceard!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!ames.arc.nasa.gov!icus!lenny Thu Sep 28 07:21:04 1989 remote from tarpit Received: by alfred.UUCP (smail2.5) id AA07645; 28 Sep 89 07:21:04 EDT (Thu) Received: by tarpit.UUCP (smail2.5) id AA23239; 28 Sep 89 07:03:14 EDT (Thu) Received: by Sceard.COM (smail2.5/deliver1.5) id AA14028; 28 Sep 89 03:12:02 PDT (Thu) Received: from cs.utexas.edu by uunet.uu.net (5.61/1.14) with UUCP id AA17526; Wed, 27 Sep 89 20:50:16 -0400 This message didn't contain the full path of the sender because some of the sites didn't put the smail info into the message. Yet the information is right there in the second line. Why is this?? Is there anything I can do about it?? It really makes trying to reply to a message a bit of a dicey proposition!! :-( -- Elliot Dierksen Home: {peora,ucf-cs,uunet}!tarpit!alfred!elliot Work: {att,codas}!candi!fang!ebd "You can only be you once, but you can be immature forever!"