rolff@mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff) (12/19/89)
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >Both machines correctly inserted the date, but smail 3.1 lost the From_ line. >While this isn't RFC822, it's what Version 2 UUCP generates. It should be >handled by smail. Are you saying that Smail 3.1 doesn't generate a From_ before passing the message to uux? In that case you're wrong. Here's a piece of /usr/lib/smail/transports: # uux - deliver to the rmail program on a remote UUCP site uux: driver = pipe, uucp, # use UUCP-style addressing forms from, # supply a From_ envelope line max_addrs = 5, # at most 5 addresses per invocation max_chars = 200; # at most 200 chars of addresses # the -r flag prevents immediate delivery, parentheses around the # $user variable prevent special interpretation by uux. cmd = "/usr/bin/uux - -r $host!rmail $(($user)$)", umask = 0022, pipe_as_sender --Anders
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (12/20/89)
In article <106@mosh.UUCP> rolff@mosh.UUCP (Anders Rolff) writes: > peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Both machines correctly inserted the date, but smail 3.1 lost the From_ line. > >While this isn't RFC822, it's what Version 2 UUCP generates. It should be > >handled by smail. > Are you saying that Smail 3.1 doesn't generate a From_ before passing > the message to uux? In that case you're wrong. 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. Any mail I send via texbell ends up being From_ texbell!Postmaster. Mail sent via uunet, sugar, or any of our local machines (running System V 3.0 on Arix 1100s) works just fine. ficc System: Xenix 286, (System III based). Mailer: Vanilla Xenix mail, using Version 2 UUCP style headers. texbell System: System V (I think) on an NCR Tower. Mailer: Smail 3.1 sugar System: System V/386 on a clone. Mailer: Smail 2.5 -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.uu.net>. 'U` Also <peter@ficc.lonestar.org> or <peter@sugar.lonestar.org>. "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com