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Mail problem

Post by John M. Roger » Sun, 17 Dec 1995 04:00:00



We have been having a problem with our outgoing mail on a system at
work.  We are connected through a UUCP connection.  Ever since we got
this connection, we could send and receive mail okay, but the From:
line got corrupted and no one could do an automatic reply with the "r"
option of mail.

I was fortunate enough to get pine working this week and was able to
send messages without the From: line being corrupted, but still can't
do it with "mail".  

I am attaching the two headers generated, first the mail program, second
the pine program.  If anyone has any ideas, they would be greatly
appreciated!

My address on the system I am mail from now is:


the one I'm having the problem with is:


I mention this because the system at the top has some problem with the
from address when sending to newsgroups for some stupid reason.  You'll
have to reply manually.  Thanks!

Here are the headers:

From csnorth!rogersj Fri Dec 15 12:03:10 1995
Received: from email.broward.cc.fl.us (sun1.broward.cc.fl.us) by draco.nova.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1)
        id AA19673; Fri, 15 Dec 95 12:02:48 EST
Received: by email.broward.cc.fl.us (5.x/SMI-SVR4)
        id AA03737; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:58:13 -0500
From: csnorth!email.broward.cc.fl.us
X-Mailer: SCO System V Mail (version 3.2)

Subject: test of mail
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 95 12:01:28 EST

Received: from csnorth by sun1.broward.cc.fl.us; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 11:58 EST
Content-Type: text
Status: RO

Quote:>From csnorth!rogersj Fri Dec 15 10:59:19 1995

Received: from email.broward.cc.fl.us (sun1.broward.cc.fl.us) by draco.nova.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1)
        id AA19212; Fri, 15 Dec 95 10:58:58 EST
Received: by email.broward.cc.fl.us (5.x/SMI-SVR4)
        id AA03655; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:54:24 -0500
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:54:24 -0500
Quote:>Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:56:28 -0500 (EST)




Subject: test through pine

Mime-Version: 1.0

Received: from csnorth by sun1.broward.cc.fl.us; Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:54 EST
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Status: RO
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