On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 12:06:31PM +1000, Rob Shugg wrote:
> Further investigation has revealed that somewhere in my mail setup I am
> losing my "From" line. After many hours I am at a loss as to where to look
> from here. I have a sendmail hub which is accessed by fetchmail to postfix
> on my workstation and then procmail sorts it for mutt to read. all the
> setups are as minimal as I can get them. the mail is getting to
> /var/log/mail/rob but looks like this:
> 
> Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Received: from vortex.altsim.org
>       by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.3.8)
>       for rob@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:22:50 +1100
> (EST)
> Received: from zed3 ([203.37.111.44])
>       by vortex.altsim.org (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e8OBHuU07545
>       for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 22:17:56 +1100
> Received: by zed3 (Postfix, from userid 500)
>       id 6659E14EDF; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:22:43 +1100 (EST)
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: foo
> Message-Id: <20001024102243.6659E14EDF@zed3>
> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:22:43 +1100 (EST)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> bar.
> 
> 
> The missing "From" line is stuffing up mutt of course.
> Can you give me any ideas as to which program could be causing this and if
> possible, a solution?

To correct this problem, use procmail and formail. There is an example
in the formail man page iirc.

To find out where it is being caused:

1. check the email on the sendmail hub first.

2. fetchmail into a file (like culprit)

3. check postfix's queue

Anand


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