[comp.mail.misc] Re^5: Smail 3.X

rolff@mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff) (12/21/89)

rolff@mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff) writes:

>peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>>No, I didn't say that. Look at the messages again. Smail 2.5 read my name
>>(peter) from the From_ line on ficc, and copied it to the From_ line that
>>was on the message sent to texbell. Smail 3.1 ignored the From_ line and
>>invented one (From Postmaster...) and put it on the From_ line that it
>>sent to sugar.

>Hm.. I took a closer look at uucp/smail and found that you're correct.
>I'm not certain, for the moment, if the erroneous From_ line comes from smail
>or uucp.

You're not getting tired are you? Here's my third version:

Neither Smail nor Uucp behaves incorrectly; the problems at my site
are all due to a buggy smtp.

--Anders