lwv27@CAS.BITNET (01/30/91)
Running 7.2.1 on a Sun Sparcstation 1+, SunOS 4.1.0 . The default sendmail.cf
file is installed.
When I send a mail msg to one of my other ids, I see the following
header:
From lwv27@lwv27aws.CAS.ORG Wed Jan 30 08:47:11 1991
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From: lwv27@chemabs ()
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 1991 08:47:03 EST
Followup: poster
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To: lwv27
Subject: test
Why does that From line have empty () at the end? From some machines I get thos
and from some machines I do not. Any ideas?
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America Online: lvirdenmurray@motto.UUCP (Murray S. Kucherawy) (01/31/91)
lwv27@CAS.BITNET.UUCP writes: >Why does that From line have empty () at the end? From some machines I get thos >and from some machines I do not. Any ideas? I can think a few possibilities. Could be that: 1) Your full name in /etc/passwd is blank 2) The mush variable "fullname" is set but empty 3) /etc/passwd is unreadable =============================== Murray S. Kucherawy ========================== Motorola Canada, Ltd. Communications Division, Toronto [on work term] University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 2B Math/Computer Science Internet: murray@motto.UUCP (work) mskucherawy@watmath.UWaterloo.ca (UW) UUCP: uunet!utai!lsuc!motto!murray uunet!watmath!mskucherawy