greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) (09/13/90)
I've known about this problem for months, and have been trying to fix it for days.... If you look at the top of this post at the Path: line, you will notice that it ends with gagme!gagme.chi.il.us Shouldn't it end with gagme!greg ???? What am I doing wrong?? I think I have the latest version of the news software. I must not be configuring it right. Anybody got any ideas??? This is driving me nuts!!! -greg
heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) (09/15/90)
Technically, the "Path:" header line isn't supposed to be used for email replies. It's only supposed to be used to make sure that news articles that have been to your system don't get sent to it again. For that purpose, it doesn't matter that your Path line looks the way it does. Of course, for people with defective News/Mail software that tries to use the Path line as a reply address, you *do* want to get it fixed. Sorry I don't have a suggestion for you on that score. -- Ron Heiby, heiby@chg.mcd.mot.com Moderator: comp.newprod "Mandatory Drug Testing? Just Say NO!!!"
kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) (09/16/90)
In article <701@gagme.chi.il.us> greg@gagme.chi.il.us (Gregory Gulik) writes: >If you look at the top of this post at the Path: line, you will >notice that it ends with gagme!gagme.chi.il.us > >Shouldn't it end with gagme!greg ???? Are you by any chance using nntp? Version 1.5.8 has this problem; I hacked gen_frompath() in file inews/inews.c to fix it. Later I upgraded to 1.5.9 and noticed this had been fixed, but still did not seem to work -- turned out it used a flag named seen_pathline that wasn't initialized to zero. With the addition of the proper initialization it works fine. -- Karl Swartz |UUCP uunet!apple!zygot!ditka!kls 1-408/223-1308 |INet zygot!ditka!kls@apple.com "I never let my schooling get in |BIX kswartz the way of my education."(Twain) |Snail 1738 Deer Creek Ct., San Jose CA 95148
karish@mindcrf.UUCP (Chuck Karish) (09/17/90)
In article <45486@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com> heiby@mcdchg.chg.mcd.mot.com (Ron Heiby) writes: [ in response for a query about FQDN in the 'Path: ' header ] >Technically, the "Path:" header line isn't supposed to be used for >email replies. It's only supposed to be used to make sure that news >articles that have been to your system don't get sent to it again. >For that purpose, it doesn't matter that your Path line looks the way >it does. Of course, for people with defective News/Mail software that >tries to use the Path line as a reply address, you *do* want to get it >fixed. Truncating the system name without registering it won't `fix' anything. The registration of UUCP map entries assures that host names are unique. The local host name of a FQDN need not be unique on all the Internet and in UUCP land; that's why domains exist, after all. The deficient mail software will run into problems whether the name is `fixed' or not. If it's truncated, UUCP will try to route the mail through a registered host that's almost certain to be the wrong one. If it's not, the local mailer will assume that the mailer on the Internet host will recognize the next host in the path by its UUCP name; more likely, the remote mailer will try to resolve that name within its own local domain. -- Chuck Karish karish@mindcraft.com Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000