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- From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4,comp.mail.misc
- Subject: Re: Email header problems on SVR4.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.030458.4243@cfctech.cfc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:04:58 GMT
- References: <1992Nov14.074815.15655@clark.edu>
- Organization: Chrysler Financial Corp., Southfield, MI
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- In article <1992Nov14.074815.15655@clark.edu> ade@clark.edu (Adrian Miranda) writes:
- >I am having some problems with mail on ESIX SVR4.0.4. After some
- >effort, I was able to get things running by setting up the
- >/etc/mail/mailcnfg and /etc/mail/mailsurr files. The problem is,
- >although mail is delivered correctly, the headers are often messed up.
- >What seems to be happening is that sometimes, the "From " header at
- >the top of the message is not recognized as a header, and a ">" is
- >inserted in front of it. Then a new "From " header is added to the
- >top of the message. The original "From " header and all following
- >headers now become a part of the body of the message, making for a
- >pretty messy looking message.
- >
- >Anyone have any idea what is going on? It does not seem to happen all
- >the time, just sometimes. I get the impression that /bin/rmail is the
- >one messing things up, but I really haven't the vaguest idea. For
- >instance, if a message comes in via smtp or uucp, and is delivered
- >locally, it is messed up. But if it comes in via uucp, and goes out
- >via uucp, it's fine. If it comes in via uucp, and goes out via smtp,
- >it is screwed up. Or something like that....
- >
- >If anyone could tell me how to fix this, I would greatly appreciate
- >it. I have looked at the SVR4 Manuals, but they don't seem to go into
- >much detail about the mailer, and I can't find anything that relates
- >to this problem. I suspect there's an easy solution, but I sure
- >haven't been able to find it.
-
- Try adding a "-u" to the command line for smtpqer in /etc/mail/mailsurr.
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