abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine) (10/19/90)
Folks:
I'm having a rather odd problem with sendmail under Ultrix V4.0.
It has to do with replying to mail once its received. For some
reason, when an incoming message has a From: line that
looks like:
From: abstine@polymer.che.clarkson.edu (Art Stine)
^ some string
when doing a 'r' in mail, I get a To: line that looks like:
To: on abstine@polymer.che.clarkson.edu
^ where did THIS come from?? (on two of my other V4.0 systems, that
string says: mon instead of on
This seems to happen on all of our V4.0 systems except 1...
that one uses the /usr partition from one of the other
systems which has the problem. The systems are all stock -
no mods to sendmail.cf... it doesn't seem to matter whether
there are any .mailrc files or not...
If I try to send mail the brute force way (ie, telnet to port 25)
and construct a msg w/o the () string, then the reply
doesn't contain this bogus string...
Frankly, I'm baffled... anyone have any clues?
thanks much
art stine
sr network engineer
clarkson u
abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu