New information on my problem! Here's the background:
] Our ISP runs Sendmail 8.8.5 and Taylor UUCP 1.06.1 on a Solaris 2.5
] box. We have about a dozen UUCP customers that all work just fine,
] but one customer is having problems. They run SCO 3.4v4.2, HoneyDanber
] UUCP, and MMDF IIb.43.
]
] Whenever they send outgoing mail, the first header gets a ">"
] prepended to it. In elm, this is the Subject: header; in binmail,
] this is the From: header. I tried disabling uuxqt briefly and
] grabbing a copy of their mail when it hit our ISP, and it looks
] fine:
]
]: From jack Wed Apr 9 15:49:44 1997 remote from 1sttv.com
]: Subject: ELM, test
]: Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:49:39 -0500 (CDT)
]: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25]
]: Content-Type: text
]: Content-Length: 175
]:
]: This is your test for elm
]
] However, when the mail reaches my mailbox, it looks like this:
]
]: by eagle.inetnebr.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA26862
]: by falcon.inetnebr.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA16134
]: for bvh; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 16:17:52 -0500 (CDT)
]: >Subject: ELM, test
]: Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 15:49:39 -0500 (CDT)
]: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25]
]: Received: from 1sttv.com by falcon.inetnebr.com; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 16:17 CDT
]: Content-Type: text
]: Status: OR
]:
]: This is your test for elm
OK, I've done some more experimenting, and it appears that Solaris'
/bin/rmail is the culprit. I grabbed outgoing mail from several of
our UUCP customers, and for all of them, rmail places a ">" in front
of the first header before it sends the message to sendmail. The
reason the other customers "work" is because their first header is
"Received:", but 1sttv (the disfunctional customer) doesn't add a
Received header before they send off the mail, so it's their Subject
that gets mangled.
If I remove the "^From " line from the original message (the input
to rmail), then the ">" doesn't get added, but the sender is listed
wrong. Same results if I remove just the "remote from 1sttv.com"
from the end of the "^From " line.
My problem now is that I don't have source code for rmail. Are there
any public domain rmail's out there that I could use instead of the
stock Solaris 2.5 version? Does Sun have a patch to fix this sort
of thing? Do I merely have something configured incorrectly? Has
anyone else experienced this problem and/or know how I can fix it?
I'm getting kinda desperate here, and the customer is getting cranky.
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