Subject: Pine Configuration Question, ... Take 2...

From: [email-masked] (Jeff Brown)
Date: 1 Jun 1995 18:57:03 GMT

I posted here about a month ago, and recived no response, I'd
really like to be able to recomend pine as the mailer of choice for our
faculty and staff, however there is still one problem that I need to
solve. 

	The only problem I am having is that some messages (recived by
pine) are not showing the senders name from the folder.  instead, they
are listed as "to: USER", where USER is the recipient.

	Now, if someone has the enable-full-header-cmd of the
feature-list configuration set up, then they can find out who sent the
message.

	I have narrowed the problem down to old mailers, (I think) which
use the "From" field in the header, but not the "From:" field.  Is there
any quick fix that will allow a user to see who a message was sent from
without relying on trying to explain the command to our many users???

	Thanks! 

		-Jeff Brown ([email-masked])
		 Assistant System Administrator
		 Physics Department, University of Maryland.

	ps. I have also reported this as a bug, and I will forward any
response I get from that to this group, for informative purposes.

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 12:35:37 -0700 (PDT)

Jeff,
There almost certainly is a bug/mis-configuration --but I don't think
the bug is in Pine.  The missing "From: " header is the key.  This is
necessary, and if missing, the cause of the missing header should be
discovered and eliminated.  (The "From " line is a
local-mailbox-format-specific message separator, and has nothing to do
with RFC-822 headers.)

Often sendmail is configured to make sure there is a valid From: header
when an MUA does not provide one, but not all sendmails have been so
configured.  (That's one of the reasons Pine does create its own From:
headers.)

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Brown)
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 95 16:03:02 -0400

> configured.  (That's one of the reasons Pine does create its own From:

	Thanks for the response Terry!  I'll look into it.  If this
turns out to be the problem, I'll let you know.

	ps. I posted a copy of your letter (slightly modified) as a
followup to the orriginal post (which was almost identicle to the
letter I sent you guys.), again, thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Brown)
Date: 5 Jun 1995 19:45:12 GMT

Jeff Brown ([email-masked]) wrote:
: [ snip ] 

: 	ps. I have also reported this as a bug, and I will forward any
: response I get from that to this group, for informative purposes.

	The following Mail was sent to me about the missing From:

Return-Path: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 12:35:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
To: Jeff Brown <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Subject: Re: Pine Configuration Question, ... Take 2...

Jeff,

-teg

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From: Robert Becnel <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 19:56:08 -0700 (PDT)

On Mon, 5 Jun 1995, Jeff Brown wrote:

Thanks for letting me know about this.

> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 95 16:03:02 -0400
> From: Jeff Brown <[email-masked]>
> To: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]

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