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From: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Problems with MMDF and UUCP mail
Message-ID: <7921@gollum.twg.com>
Date: 11 Sep 90 03:22:03 GMT
References: <0ae6o2w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Reply-To: david@twg.com (David S. Herron)
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <0ae6o2w163w@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>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.

Usually I see this as coming from "uucp" and usually it only happens
on System V machines.  I never bothered to understand why it happens,
if only because I usually run MMDF on BSD machines.  But then it works
fine on my Unix PC at home soooo...

If I remember I'll ask my cohort about this tomorrow.  He has more experience
with running MMDF on System V than I do.

>  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?


I don't understand this.

MMDF quite carefully puts Received: headers into messages.  Are you sure
you're seeing what you're seeing?  :-)


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