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From: davids@iscuva.ISCS.COM (David Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Problem with ">From" in header
Keywords: sendmail header
Message-ID: <2631@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 28 Sep 89 16:40:27 GMT
Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, Wa.
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We've been having problems lately with mail coming in via SMTP from certain
hosts.  The problem occures when a ">From " line is in the header.  It
appears that sendmail decides that this is an invalid header and treats the
rest of the header as message body (inserting a blank line before the >From
line).

This ends up generating an "Apparently To:" header as the original "To:"
header is after the ">From" line.

We have a temporary fix in that removes ALL ">From" lines from the message
before it's sent from the other system, but this is just a hack.

Could anyone give me a fix for my sendmail.cf file that will get sendmail to
recognize the ">From" lines as valid header lines?

I am running Ultrix 3.0 on a MicroVAX II and we do not have source to the
Ultrix sendmail.

Thank you!
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David Schmidt               UUCP:  davids@iscuva.ISCS.COM
ISC-Bunker Ramo Corporation        (uunet!iscuva!davids)
East 22425 Appleway         Phone: +1 509 927 5479
Liberty Lake, WA  99019