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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
