[comp.mail.sendmail] mail --> recnews ==> bad "from" header

sliu@sbi.com ( Pivot) (10/24/90)

Hi,

I get mail from a mailing list and pipe that into recnews.  However,
I've noticed that all the articles generated from recnews seems to
lose the "from" field.  When I try to reply to the sender, I find
that I'm replying to the person listed in the "sender" header.  This
is wrong for two reasons: 1) the sende is usually someone like uucp
(we subscribe to UUNET) or daemon; and 2) there is a "from" header!
This header is seen only when I look at the full header section, and
begins with "From: ", not "From " or ">From ".

More observations: test mail sent to the mail alias from one of our
internal machines (so we're not using uucp) results in a correctly
generated article, header-wise.  Mail coming from the outside goes
through UUNET first and comes to us via a modem line and uucp.  These
result in the "null" from headers.

As expected, this bugs me...

Has anyone there experienced this sorta thing before?  Can anyone
suggest a fix, or at least a place for me to start?  Hacking the
sendmail.cf isn't preferred.  Writing a wrapper to recnews to force
the correct sender doesn't seem like the correct thing to do, but it
may be my only choice.  I'd like to fix whatever is wrong... like
maybe recnews.c...  (I'd really hate to re-invent the wheel...)

BTW, while I'm at it, does anyone have a good working scheme of
creating a bi-directional gateway between a mailing list and an
internal newsgroup?  I wish to compare it with mine, since I'm not
quite satisfied with my scheme... (even though it's quite functional).

Also, someone earlier sent me a recnews.c and recnews.8 in a shar file.
I lost your email address.  Thanks!  Your recnews didn't solve my
problem.  Back to the drawing board for me...

Steve
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