Lawson,
Well, I may be on to a solution, but some aspects of the issue remain
interesting. As for the solution, I took the advice to unsub and re-sub
to a list on the vger.rutgers.edu server (linux-hams), and it's
beginning to look like this did the trick. At least I could get the
server to respond favorably to commands sent by rmail via sendmail (?
See next). I'll know shortly if that procedure really did the trick.
I'm beginning to suspect that a change in my local hostname (associated
with changing my machine from being on a LAN to a stand-alone
workstation) may be the culprit. Indeed, it looks like a header problem,
and if the MUA is entirely responsible for the header, and rmail was my
MUA (see below), than rmail was sending a "From:" header line that was
not the same as the machine address used to subscribe to the list. Or,
at least, this is my impression at this point.
You asked
>> from rmail, but it will from Netscape. I'm running a stand-along Linux
>> RH 6.0 work station.
> Then why does X-mailer: say mozilla? :-). You don't normally use rmail
The message to you had to be sent by Netscape, and so would't that
explain the "Mozilla?" (minor point).
You then ask
> Then why does X-mailer: say mozilla? :-). You don't normally use rmail
> directly, do you? Rmail seems to expect a From header on stdin, and
> passes the lot to sendmail. You must be using some MUA to read and
> compose mail and feed it to rmail, I think.
I'm lost. To get mail from my ISP's mail server, I open a shell in emacs
(or xterm) and enter "fetchmail." To read the mail that arrived here,
mail, I simply enter M-x "rmail" in emacs, and I can do anything I want
to my mail (read, copy, delete, forward, etc.), much more easily and
faster than, say, MS Outlook or Netscape Communicator. When I use rmail
to compose a message, I simply press the key "m" and a window pops up
with these lines:
To:
Subject:
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BCC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--text follows this line--
--
Haines Brown
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.hartford-hwp.com
There's no From: line here, and it is apparently added automatically by
rmail. I just assumed nearly everyone using emacs also used rmail, and
I'm surprised at your surprise. It is, I assume, in fact my MUA.
Haines
