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Re: more on the mail problem I reported...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Jul 30 17:36:20 1998

To: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 30 Jul 1998 17:36:18 -0400
In-Reply-To: Kev's message of Thu, 30 Jul 1998 17:25:39 EDT

That's nice -- This is an Athena 8.2 machine, not a SIPB-Athena
machine....  Although I believe I did see a sendmail.mc patch sometime
recently which supposedly corrects the problem.  Does Athena use the
m4 to compile sendmail.cf?

-derek

Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU> writes:

> 
> > "warlord@sidney.mit.edu".  I suspect that the default sendmail.cf is
> > sending an envelope from address of the localhost rather than an
> > envelope from address of @mit.edu.
> > 
> > Unfortunately I'm not conversant enough in sendmail.cf to actually
> > track this one down (sorry).
> 
> speaking as a former mailing list maintainer that actually read his mail
> logs ;)  Indeed, this is the case for all SIPB-Athena machines I've seen.
> -- 
> Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
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