I think smail refuses to rewrite the from: field. So, if Your mail app is adding a from: field smail will leave it unchanged. You have to make your mail app add the right from: field (or non att all) to fix it. If You find any other solution, please tell me
HTH /Lars In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jonathan A. Buzzard" writes: > > 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= > =2E > > 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 doe= > s. > > I have since fiddled with every possible option that could conceivably ha= > ve > 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/inp= > ut > 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 > >
