brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) (01/10/90)
My mail was fine on the Microport system, but for some reason, it is messed
up under ISC 386ix. Here is a header of a piece of e-mail that I get:
(the #s are my inclusion to make sure it doesn't mess up getting xferred)
#From uucp Tue Jan 9 06:05:31 1990
#Date: Tue, 9 Jan 90 06:05:31 CST
#From: uucp (0000-uucp(0000))
#Message-Id: <9001091205.AA01416@vidiot.UUCP>
#Apparently-To: brown
#
#>From uwvax!rutgers!att.att.com!ihlpm!alicej Tue Jan 9 03:28:26 1990 remote from astroatc
#Received: by astroatc.UUCP (5.51/4.7)
# id AA03067; Tue, 9 Jan 90 03:28:26 CST
#From: astroatc!uwvax!rutgers!att.att.com!ihlpm!alicej
#Received: from rutgers.UUCP by spool.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 9 Jan 90 02:36:57 -0600
OK, what is wrong you may ask? The second through fifth lines are messing the
mail reader, ie, it thinks it is from uucp (0000-uucp(0000)) and it loses
the subject line etc.
What I need is for the ISC configuration of the mailer to not add the first
six lines, or at least to leave the first line and get rid of the next five.
If you have fixed this screwup, I would appreciate your help.
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rutgers/ decvax!nicmad/ INTERNET:<@cs.wisc.edu,@astroatc:brown@vidiot>cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (01/10/90)
In article <11@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: > OK, what is wrong you may ask? The second through fifth lines are messing the > mail reader, ie, it thinks it is from uucp (0000-uucp(0000)) and it loses > the subject line etc. We fixed this about a 8 months ago on our system. I believe the solution was to replace /bin/rmail with a copy (or link if they are on the same file system) of /usr/lib/sendmail. We also modified some lines in /usr/lib/sendmail.cf, but if I remember correctly the problem you described was fixed by the replacement of rmail. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Conor P. Cahill uunet!virtech!cpcahil 703-430-9247 ! | Virtual Technologies Inc., P. O. Box 876, Sterling, VA 22170 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
jackv@turnkey.gryphon.COM (Jack F. Vogel) (01/12/90)
In article <1990Jan10.145604.4306@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes: >In article <11@vidiot.UUCP>, brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) writes: >> OK, what is wrong you may ask? The second through fifth lines are messing the >> mail reader, ie, it thinks it is from uucp (0000-uucp(0000)) and it loses >> the subject line etc. > >We fixed this about a 8 months ago on our system. I believe the solution was >to replace /bin/rmail with a copy (or link if they are on the same file system) >of /usr/lib/sendmail. This doesn't sound like any solution I have heard of. What I did right from the beginning (and I have never seen this problem) was to build and install the 2.5 version of smail ( ISC's provided smail is some back-level thing that doesn't even work! ). Install it according to the normal instructions for a system that has sendmail, and everything works just fine. In this case /bin/rmail is a link to /bin/smail. Good Luck! -- Jack F. Vogel jackv@seas.ucla.edu AIX Technical Support - or - Locus Computing Corp. jackv@ifs.umich.edu