The original query was:
>>We recently upgraded from OSF 3.0 to DU 3.2c, and are now seeing
>>strangeness with the UNIX style From line (first line in the message
>>after delivery). On local delivery and delivery from some systems, it
>>looks like:
>>
>> From SomeRealUsername
>>
>>where SomeRealUsername has real significance relating to the sender
>>of the message. However on some email the line looks like:
>>
>> From daemon
>>
>>I have not been able to change it, even when I installed sendmail 8.7.1,
>>which leads me to believe that the problem may not be with sendmail at
>>all, but rather with the local delivery agent, /bin/mail. Has anyone
>>see this phenomemon? It does not matter what I put in the sendmail.cf
>>file, I cannot get the "daemon" to change.
>>
Thanks to Greg Couch for the solution:
The problem seems to be with /bin/mail not believing the -r flag
when invoked by daemon -- the sendmail default. I added an S to
the local mailer flags so that sendmail would set its uid to root
before invoking /bin/mail, and that solves the "From " line
strangeness.
I also had replies from Arrigo Triulzi and Johannes Grosen stating that
they had seen the same phenomenon after the upgrade.
Thanks to all!
--Sheila
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Sheila Hollenbaugh Sr. Computer Systems Engineer
Wright State University College of Engineering & Computer Science
Dayton, OH 45435 Voice: (513) 873-5077 FAX: (513) 873-5009
shollen_at_cs.wright.edu or shollen_at_valhalla.cs.wright.edu
Received on Thu Dec 14 1995 - 14:11:54 NZDT