[comp.mail.mh] Strange problem with xmh.

ronv@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Ron Verstappen) (10/04/90)

I have a very strange problem with xmh on one of our machines here.

Symptoms:

  From one machine in our system (ssp) messages sent using "Compose Message" 
result in a message being sent with the "Reply-to" field being set to the
addressee's name and address.   For example, the following message was sent by
user "john":

> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 1990 15:40:31 +0930
> From: Ron Verstappen <ronv@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
> Message-Id: <9010030610.AA12600@chook.ua.oz.au>
> Apparently-To: ronv@ssp.cs.adelaide.edu.au
>
> hello ron
> john

(The same message sent from every other machine in our network works fine.)

  It only does it in xmh, not mh (using comp).
  It only does it with the "Compose Message", not "Reply".


More info:

  ssp is a SparcStation running SunOS 4.1.  (We have other SS's that work OK).
  All of the machines use precisely the same xmh executable.
  The only difference in the sendmail configuration for ssp is:
########################################################
#
# ----------- Local Addition -----------
#

# my official hostname and domainname
Dj$w.$m
Dmcs.adelaide.edu.au

# what we want to look like
DJ$m

# Domains that we are in
CM adelaide.edu.au ua.oz.au
########################################################

(the rest of the configuration file is the SunOS distribution file)

Has anyone any suggestions as to what's going wrong, and/or how to fix
this problem.

Thanks in advance,

Ron Verstappen.
(ronv@cs.adelaide.edu.au)