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From: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Problems with MMDF and UUCP mail
Message-ID: <0ae6o2w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 7 Sep 90 22:45:56 GMT
Organization: The Programmers' Pit Stop, Ann Arbor MI
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We are running SCO Unix/Open Desktop and related utilities on a
cluster of machines connected via TCP/IP over Ethernet.  There is no
TCP/IP link to the rest of the world, though; the only outside link is
UUCP.  I have set things up so that all the machines on the network
send their mail to the main gateway machine for routing over UUCP if
it isn't to one of the other LAN machines.  The MTA is MMDF as
included with SCO Unix.

We're having a problem with MMDF.  Although it sends the mail to the
appropriate machine and it eventually gets where it's supposed to go,
the headers aren't correct.  First of all, the From_ line lists the
mail as from user "mmdf" instead of the user that actually sent the
mail.  Second of all, MMDF isn't adding Received: headers to the
messages, which makes it difficult to track down bounced mail and such.
The SCO ODT manuals have been no help at all, which was probably to be
expected seeing as how there's no mention of the MTA in the section
about UUCP, and only a few pages on UUCP in the section about MMDF.
How do we fix these problems?

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