gplan@umb.umb.edu (George Planansky) (03/25/90)
On our covey of diskless Sun 3/60's, served by a Sun 3/280, Sun OS 4.0x, mailings made with the GNU Emacs ver. 18.52 mailer put the wrong name in the ``From: username'' field. This occurs when mailing from a 3/60 login. The letter arrives, saying it came from that 3/60 and was received by the server, but the from: username has the name of the recipient, not the sender. If there is more than one recipient, the first one named shows up as the sender. This occurs whether or not the name of the recipient is an alias, possibly of several names, or not. If the bcc: field is filled with the name of the sender, then the from: field has the correct value. If a from: field is filled before sending the letter, the from: field and a sender: field both have the correct, same, value. When mailing from a server login, or from a standalone Alliant mail gets the correct from: field value. The Suns run Yellow Pages, using the server's passwd, group, and so on, files. The Alliant is not involved in Yellow Pages. Mailings by the Sun OS mailer, by the Alliant's Concentrix mailer, and by ELM on the Suns, have correct from: fields under all circumstances. What's going wrong and how do I fix it? George Planansky gplan@ra.umb.edu Atmosphere Environment Research Cambridge MA 02139 (617) 547-6207