[comp.unix.ultrix] Where are the missing "From: " lines?

david@linus.UUCP (David M. Watson) (11/05/87)

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Most of the users on our ethernet (composed of Ultrix 2.0 machines running
sendmail 5.51 and MH 6.5) have experienced a problem that is both annoying and
difficult to reproduce.  It seems (because I myself have *never* had this
problem) that some days, as many as 90% of the mail in these users' spool files
lacks an RFC822 "From: " line.  The problem occurs independent of sender,
recipient (unless the recipient is me, who never has the problem), or host
(although my host may somehow work better).  The problem follows no perceptible
pattern; it appears to occur completely at random, although some weeks I get
more complaints about this than other weeks.  It is an annoying problem because
MH will not create a "To: " line when the user runs "repl", although there is a
"Return-Path: " field which "inc" generated from the "ugly" UNIX "From_" line.

The problem started when we switched to Ultrix 2.0, although we are using the
same version of sendmail (relinked for 2.0) and the same .cf files we did
before. 

Has anyone seen this before, or know of ways to localize or fix it?

		-David Watson
		 Cognition, Inc. (617) 667-4800
		 Billerica, MA