gorpong@ping.chi.il.us (Gordon C. Galligher) (01/07/91)
In my previous posting I gave the specifics of the post -help command. I am running MH 6.7 on an SCO UNIX 3.2 system, and I am having problems with the 'From: ' attribute which is tacked on by post. If I have Signature: Gordon C. Galligher in my mh_profile, then it attributes: From: Gordon C. Galligher <gorpong> on all mail. Should this not be: <gorpong@ping.chi.il.us> (which is my hostname). In the mtstailor file I have localname: ping.chi.il.us systemname: ping.chi.il.us and I have tried these, and ignoring these, and it makes absolutely no difference. When a down site sees <gorpong> alone, it rewrites it to be <gorpong@that.site> which will clearly bounce. How can I get post to put the From: <gorpong@localhost> in their correctly? Is that a setup option with compiling it which I did not do correctly? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -- Gordon. -- Gordon C. Galligher 9127 Potter Rd. #2E Des Plaines, IL 60016-4881 gorpong@ping.chi.il.us gorpong%ping@uu.psi.com ...!uu.psi.com!ping!gorpong "I know how it works....That's why I don't like it" -- Chip Salzenberg on SCO "UNIX" C2 Security Package
ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) (01/07/91)
"Gordon C. Galligher" writes: >I am running MH 6.7 on an SCO UNIX 3.2 system, and I am having problems >with the 'From: ' attribute which is tacked on by post. If I have > Signature: Gordon C. Galligher >in my mh_profile, then it attributes: From: Gordon C. Galligher <gorpong> >on all mail. Should this not be: <gorpong@ping.chi.il.us> (which is my >hostname). In the mtstailor file I have > localname: ping.chi.il.us > systemname: ping.chi.il.us >and I have tried these, and ignoring these, and it makes absolutely no >difference. When a down site sees <gorpong> alone, it rewrites it to >be <gorpong@that.site> which will clearly bounce. Just a wild guess here, but what would happen if you took the "C." out of your signature or surrounded your signature with double quotes? Signature: "Gordon C. Galligher" Unquoted periods have been blamed for messing up many address headers. It's also illegal to the RFC 822 spec for addresses. ________________________________________________________________________ Eric W. Ziegast, University of Merryland, Engineering Computing Services ziegast@eng.umd.edu - Eric@(301.405.3689)
gorpong@ping.chi.il.us (Gordon C. Galligher) (01/08/91)
In article <9101070252.AA23659@bacchus.eng.umd.edu> ziegast@ENG.UMD.EDU (Eric Ziegast) writes: >Just a wild guess here, but what would happen if you took the "C." out of >your signature or surrounded your signature with double quotes? > > Signature: "Gordon C. Galligher" > >Unquoted periods have been blamed for messing up many address headers. >It's also illegal to the RFC 822 spec for addresses. I have tried both. When using the double quotes, then the From is: From: "Gordon C. Galligher" <gorpong> And removing the C. results in: From: Gordon Galligher <gorpong> This works correctly on a Sun system using sendmail/smtp as the MTS, and some other obvious changes in configuration (options SUN40 ...) but the main stuff is still the same. I used post -debug to see it, and on this system it does <gorpong> and on the Sun it does <gorpong@host>. Wierd. -- Gordon. -- Gordon C. Galligher 9127 Potter Rd. #2E Des Plaines, IL 60016-4881 gorpong@ping.chi.il.us gorpong%ping@uu.psi.com ...!uu.psi.com!ping!gorpong "I know how it works....That's why I don't like it" -- Chip Salzenberg on SCO "UNIX" C2 Security Package
gorpong@ping.chi.il.us (Gordon C. Galligher) (01/09/91)
In article <1991Jan8.014236.14999@ping.chi.il.us> gorpong@ping.chi.il.us (Gordon C. Galligher) (ME) writes: = =I have tried both. When using the double quotes, then the From is: = From: "Gordon C. Galligher" <gorpong> =And removing the C. results in: = From: Gordon Galligher <gorpong> =This works correctly on a Sun system using sendmail/smtp as the MTS, and =some other obvious changes in configuration (options SUN40 ...) but the =main stuff is still the same. I used post -debug to see it, and on this =system it does <gorpong> and on the Sun it does <gorpong@host>. Wierd. I tried "options locname='"ping.chi.il.us"'" in the MH configuration file thinking that it would make a difference. No dice. Is it possible that post(8) (which the manual states will add the '@localhost' option) will only add that if the option BSD42 or BSD43 is set? Can it possibly think that only Berkeley sites handle ARPAnet mail? I am now very confused. I have been told that I could get the MMDF source (SCO UNIX uses MMDF) off of someplace like uunet, but I also got a response from someone at SCO informing me that SCO has made changes and added things to the standard MMDF stuff, and if I got the sources, I would lose that value added stuff, and my support. Having post(8) being setuid is a Very, Very BAD thing and I even tried to get MH to do the delivery itself, no dice. Until I can figure this out, I am stuck with mailx. Thank you all for any help you gave me. I appreciate it! -- Gordon. -- Gordon C. Galligher 9127 Potter Rd. #2E Des Plaines, IL 60016-4881 gorpong@ping.chi.il.us gorpong%ping@uu.psi.com ...!uu.psi.com!ping!gorpong "I know how it works....That's why I don't like it" -- Chip Salzenberg on SCO "UNIX" C2 Security Package
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) (01/11/91)
As quoted from <1991Jan9.050238.27897@ping.chi.il.us> by gorpong@ping.chi.il.us (Gordon C. Galligher): +--------------- | I have been told that I could get the MMDF source (SCO UNIX uses MMDF) | off of someplace like uunet, but I also got a response from someone at | SCO informing me that SCO has made changes and added things to the standard | MMDF stuff, and if I got the sources, I would lose that value added stuff, | and my support. Having post(8) being setuid is a Very, Very BAD thing +--------------- SCO's giving you a snow job, as usual for them. The ONLY value-added in their MMDF is the micnet channel, and since we don't use and don't intend to use micnet I removed it completely from the local configuration. I also run MMDFIIb #43 from louie.udel.edu with no problems (after some rewriting caused by SCO's other snow job, "C2 security"). I *did* have a problem telling MH to compile with MMDF2 as the MTS. I could not use MMDF2/SMTP; this system does *not* run ODT and therefors does *not* have TCP/IP and therefore the MMDFIIb sendmail clone can not be compiled. I looked at what it would take to make a pipe-only sendmail such as real sendmail has available, but I can't take time away from real work on the client's system to muck around with rewriting it. I don't remember what it was exactly: some external variable didn't exist, I simply replaced it with a constant value (don't rememeber if it was 0 or 1 or ???) and I haven't had problems. Yet. (I posted about this a few months ago and got deafening silence in response. I guess nobody out there runs systems that don't have TCP/IP on them but *do* have MMDF and MH.) ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY