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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: How to get visible_name to work?
- Message-ID: <BuJqFp.Cun@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Sep12.014606.12754@silogic.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 02:19:01 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Sep12.014606.12754@silogic.uucp> markd@silogic.uucp (Mark C. DiVecchio (K3FWT)) writes:
-
- >I got quite a few responses to my previous post about smail 3.1's
- >visible_name, et. al. and how to get my outgoing mail such that its
- >computed return address would be correct.
-
- >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>
- >X X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11] ^
-
- Smail doesn't rewrite the From: header if it already exists except for
- qualifying the domain for non-local deliveries. Perhaps ELM is
- configured to add the From: line itself instead of letting the
- transport (smail) do it. If that's the case you need to recompile ELM.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-