sendmail and delivery problem

[Bruce Lilly]

In article <1990Nov13.141646.4032 at msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> lees at briggs1.lbs.msu.edu (John Lees) writes:
>We have a mail delivery problem on our 3B2-500s running 3.1.1 and
>sendmail 4.12 (9/7/83) from Wollongong. The problem is that all
>mail from off-site is delivered as "From root". The following line
>begins with ">From", and has the correct address of the sender. The
>remainder of the message is just fine. Example:
>
>  From root Mon Nov 12 17:47 EST 1990
>  >From freemacs-request at sun.soe.clarkson.edu  Mon Nov 12 17:47:21 1990
> [ ... ]

1) version 4.12 is ancient (it has the pre-Morris worm bugs!)
2) the "From " lines do not indicate where the message came
    from; the "From:" RFC-822 header does. The problem is in your
    mail user agent (MUA), not in sendmail (the MTA).

I recommend getting sendmail 5.65 with IDA 1.3.5 enhancements, which is
easily ported to System V.

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