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- From: markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT))
- Subject: Re: How to get visible_name to work?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.034222.4433@silogic.uucp>
- Organization: Silogic Systems, San Diego, CA
- References: <1992Sep12.014606.12754@silogic.uucp> <1992Sep13.070606.27825@Veritas.COM>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 03:42:22 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Sep13.070606.27825@Veritas.COM> tron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep12.014606.12754@silogic.uucp> markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT)) writes:
- >>I've had no luck fixing the problem though. Here is a header generated
- >>by smail 3.1.19 (X and tab added) :
- >>
- >>X From: Mark DiVecchio (K3FWT) <markd@pgsn1.sony.com>
- >>
- >Smail3.1, until recently, has not been able to From generate lines such
- >as this. Either you have a modified version of smail3, or elm generated
- >the From line itself. The former case is certainly possible, since
- >there were quite a few unofficial 3.1.19 variants that floated around.
- >However, even if you were running an unofficial variant, it is doubtful
- >that your config file could generate such a From line. Most likely the
- >culprit is elm. I suggest you check your elm compilation-time and run-
- >time configuration files.
- >--
- > tron |-<=>-| ARPAnet: veritas!tron@apple.com
- > tron@veritas.com UUCPnet: {apple,pyramid}!veritas!tron
-
- BINGO!
-
- To all net.helpers: my problem indeed was that I needed to configure elm
- to 'hardwire' the host name and not use uname or hostname.
-
- Thanks to all who replied.
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