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- From: kahn@PHYSICS.UNC.EDU (Dan Kahn)
- Subject: sendmail induced wierdness from xrn
- Message-ID: <1993Jan10.212459.2961@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Sender: usenet@samba.oit.unc.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: augustus.physics.unc.edu
- Organization: Physics Dept. UNC-CH
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:24:59 GMT
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- When I use Xrn (X based news reader) on a Sparc station running SunOS 4.1.1 to
- forward newsgroup posts the From: field of the mail message gets messed up.
- Generally what happens is that the mail is addressed as coming from the
- receipents, and not from me. (I've seen even stranger behavior running
- on an NIS client where the receipient wasn't in the local /etc/passwd file,
- namely the From: field simply got the last entry in the local /etc/passwd file!)
-
- sendmail is invoked from xrn as a pipe with the arguments /usr/lib/sendmail -oi
- -t and the message is piped into sendmail.
-
- The really strange thing is that this only happens if I start xrn from the twm
- menu and not if I start it from a shell in my xterm. I've checked the
- environment variables for shells that twm starts and I've gone through enough of
- the execution of xrn with a debugger to be satisfied that /usr/lib/sendmail is
- getting a correct message in both cases. It seems to me that the
- /usr/lib/sendmail sub-process must be behaving in a subtly different way
- depending on how the xrn program is started.
-
- What is causing this strange behavior?
-
- Thanks,
- --dan
-