Hi, After using Debian 0.93R6 for some 18 months, I took the opportunity of installing a bigger hard disk in my laptop to install 1.2 from the cover CD of Linux World. There where a few problems on the install, but most of the ones I found seem to have been fixed, and everything is running smoothly now.
Except I decided to go with smail rather than sendmail, as it is the recomended mail delivery agent, and sendmail seemed overkill for a system now connected via modem. It delivers mail fine *except* the "From:" field. Instead of reading <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I get <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Having read all the avaliable documentation (bug report "man smailconfig" reports no manual entry) it would appear that in /etc/smail/config the option visible_name should read hex.prestel.co.uk which surprise surprise it does. I have since fiddled with every possible option that could conceivably have anything to do with this problem, all without result. It is now a week later and I am getting board with editing entries in /var/spool/smail/input to get outgoing mail correct. Ideas? JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard, 34 Kepwell Road, Prudhoe, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Northumberland. NE42 6PD Tel: +44(0)1661-832195 United Kingdom