HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tucker@bedford.progress.COM (Kyle Tucker)
Subject: Rewriting outbound uucp address to domain style
Reply-To: tucker@bedford.progress.COM
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:03:27 GMT

I've been trying to get this going for months. I have several PCs using
UUPC to get mail via a UNIX box that runs SMTP to all other systems. The
addresses from the UUPC systems hit with a From path, as configured in
UUPC of host.domain!user. When sendmail.cf sees this, the =V (uucp hosts) rules that allow me to send mail to these machines are the same ones that disallow me from keeping sendmail from making the them user@host.UUCP, when
in fact I want to make the addresses user@hosts.domain as this is a
resolvable path back to these hosts ( Due again to =V rules). In which 
ruleset can I seperate the actions of uucp bound and uucp sourced mail. I 
tried to change it right in the S= (sender) rulesets, but sendmail sends 
those back through another ruleset 3 & 6 iteration. Any tips?

I've hacked around this in the meantime by only using the domain name
in UUPC's address and letting aliases expand the full address for mail coming
back, but for some reason this also creates some very useless Return-Path
headers, so bounces from the Internet don't come back to the user. I'd like
to clean this up.
 
- Kyle
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Kyle Tucker - Email Administrator  | 		Progress Software Corporation
tucker@bedford.progress.com 	   |		14 Oak Park
(617)280-4565			   |		Bedford, Mass. 01730
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Organization: European Space Research Institute (ESRIN)
Date: Tuesday, 5 Jan 1993 11:29:44 CET
From: <VBAGGIOL@ESRIN.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject:    sender's user-name substitution in "From:" ?

Hello everybody,
I am trying to have sendmail do user-name substitution for the sender's
name in outgoing mail, without having to run NIS.
You can also call it 'reverse aliasing': I would like full human names to
appear in the "From:" field instead of unreadable login-names:

Example:
Instead of               "From: jmk@foo.bar.edu"
it should be             "From: John.Kelter@foo.bar.edu"

Is there a way to do this with the standard sendmail coming with SunOS
4.1, but without using NIS?

My configuration: I am running SunOS 4.1 on a Sparc 1+ with the standard
/usr/lib/sendmail.mx program.

Thanks in advance for your help!

Vito Baggiolini

Vito Baggiolini, Telecom Engineer, ESRIN-Frascati (Italy)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
Subject: Re: Problem with NIS alias rebuild
Organization: Bruce Lilly
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 00:06:59 GMT
Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)

In article <C0Fo12.1t0@Sweden.Prime.COM>,
 posted to comp.mail.sendmail,
 hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM (Hakan Sjogren) wrote:
>Jan  6 13:49:16 primse1 sendmail[17242]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: /etc/aliases: line 1: DBM store of servicemail-bugs (size 24) failed: Not owner

Which version of sendmail are you using?

Which dbm package did you build it with (NDBM/GDBM/SDBM)?

What are the file modes for /etc and /etc/aliases*?

>hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM				Box 18, S-164 93 Kista Sweden
              ^^^^^
I almost hesitate to ask, but: What machine and OS are involved?

-- 
	Bruce Lilly		blilly!bruce@Broadcast.Sony.COM
					...uunet!sonyusa!sonyd1!blilly!bruce
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: kahn@PHYSICS.UNC.EDU (Dan Kahn)
Subject: sendmail induced wierdness from xrn
Organization: Physics Dept. UNC-CH
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 21:24:59 GMT

When I use Xrn (X based news reader) on a Sparc station running SunOS 4.1.1 to
forward newsgroup posts the From: field of the mail message gets messed up. 
Generally what happens is that the mail is addressed as coming from the
receipents, and not from me.  (I've seen even stranger behavior running
on an NIS client where the receipient wasn't in the local /etc/passwd file,
namely the From: field simply got the last entry in the local /etc/passwd file!)

sendmail is invoked from xrn as a pipe with the arguments /usr/lib/sendmail -oi
-t and the message is piped into sendmail.

The really strange thing is that this only happens if I start xrn from the twm
menu and not if I start it from a shell in my xterm.  I've checked the
environment variables for shells that twm starts and I've gone through enough of
the execution of xrn with a debugger to be satisfied that /usr/lib/sendmail is
getting a correct message in both cases.  It seems to me that the
/usr/lib/sendmail sub-process must be behaving in a subtly different way
depending on how the xrn program is started.

What is causing this strange behavior?

Thanks,
--dan
From: hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM (Hakan Sjogren)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Problem with NIS alias rebuild
Date: 6 Jan 93 12:58:13 GMT
Organization: Computervision Sweden

Whenever the /etc/aliases file is changed and NIS: make is done
I *sometimes* get the following problem, which can only be cured
by a manual sendmail -bi afterwords. Before this is done all mailtraffic
is down.

Anybody having experienced the same and haveing a solution?

Jan  6 13:49:05 primse1 sendmail[17221]: alias database rebuilt by root
Jan  6 13:49:10 primse1 sendmail[17221]: 174 aliases, longest (archive-server) 69 bytes, 5803 bytes total
Jan  6 13:49:16 primse1 sendmail[17242]: rebuilding alias database
Jan  6 13:49:16 primse1 sendmail[17242]: alias database autorebuilt by root
Jan  6 13:49:16 primse1 sendmail[17242]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: /etc/aliases: line 1: DBM store of servicemail-bugs (size 24) failed: Not owner
Jan  6 13:49:16 primse1 sendmail[17242]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: /etc/aliases: line 2: DBM store of news (size 12) failed: Not owner
.
.
.
and so on for all lines in /etc/aliases
.
-- 
Hekan Sjvgren					Tel: +46 8 751 0000
hakan@Sweden.Prime.COM				Box 18, S-164 93 Kista Sweden
hakan@cv.se					Fax: +46 8 751 3180
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: bruce@blilly.uucp (Bruce Lilly)
Subject: Re: Rewriting outbound uucp address to domain style
Organization: Bruce Lilly
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 19:51:14 GMT
Reply-To: lilb@sony.compuserve.com (Bruce Lilly)

In article <1993Jan8.170327.13682@progress.com>,
 posted to comp.mail.sendmail,
 tucker@bedford.progress.COM wrote:
> I'd like
>to clean this up.

IDA sendmail extensions provide separate header and envelope rewriting
rulesets, so that the headers can be maintained in RFC822 form, while the
envelope addresses can be manipulated as needed to conform to the mailer's
requirements (as required by RFC976).

Time to upgrade.

BTW, your article contained the following headers which have unqualified
domain names:
	Sender: tucker@bahrain (Kyle Tucker)
	Nntp-Posting-Host: bahrain

-- 
	Bruce Lilly		...uupsi!monymsys!sonyd1!blilly!bruce
Organization: K.U.Leuven - Academic Computing Center
Date: Thursday, 7 Jan 1993 17:08:16 +01
From: Herman Van Uytven <SYSTHVU@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: rewriting VM and MVS addresses

Hello,

We want to have for the whole University E-mail addresses in the
form Surname.Name@org.kuleuven.ac.be.  A big part of this setup
works with sendmail+ida and the DNS, the most difficult part is
to get this kind of generic addresses in the From: line for mail
send by VM and MVS users.

I see a few possible solutions :

- bring all the mails from VM and MVS to a special SMTPsend on VM.
  This SMTPsend uses a dummy name-server, so that all the mail goes
  to a UNIX sendmail+IDA, where the From: line is rewritten.

- modify the MUA on VM and MVS so that
  * people can define their From: line
                 or
  * we maintain a list of userid - From: line pairs and this list is
    used to define the From: line

  We use RICE MAIL/MAILB00K on VM and UCLA mail on MVS.

Both solutions are complicated, and are dangerous for loosing mail
if not well organized.

Anyone has done such a thing ?

-Herman-   systhvu@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be or Herman.Van_Uytven@urc.kuleuven.ac.be
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
From: rob@msc.cornell.edu
Subject: Using deliver with IDA sendmail
Originator: rob@snoopy.msc.cornell.edu
Followup: sender
Organization: Cornell-Materials-Science-Center
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:15:46 GMT

I recently grabbed a copy of deliver v2.0P11 in the hopes that I could
use it to solve some problems and simplify a few things in our mail
system.  My current work involves moving an email system from our Convex
machines to a couple of Sun Sparc 1's running SunOS v4.1.1 which is a
BSD-flavor UNIX.

Unfortunately, there's little documentation with the package, and it's
definitely Xenix/SYSV-oriented.  The only example given that's useful
to me is one for sendmail where deliver can be executed by a user in
his/her .forward file.  I was hoping more for a local delivery program
that would handle everything sendmail ends up resolving to the LOCAL
mailer.  We're also looking to do away with .forward files altogether
to avoid the problem with continually having to mount a user's home 
directory from our mail servers.

Has anyone been able to use deliver in the way I hope to, or do they
know of another delivery agent program that can do properly locking
when writing to files?  Should I switch to Smail?

My apologies if this isn't very clear.  Any help/suggestions are 
appreciated.

Rob

-- 

Rob Vaughn, Fugitive Systems Guy
Mat. Sci. Center Computing, Cornell University
rob@msc.cornell.edu - rob@crnlmsc2.bitnet
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From: anand@novell.com
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Needed: a list of Time Zone Names and Time offsets from GMT
Keywords: RFC822, SMTP
Date: 8 Jan 93 19:54:36 GMT
Reply-To: anand@novell.com
Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, Ca

I am looking for a list of Time Zone NAMEs used in the mail messages
including their time offsets from the GMT and DAY-light saving time.

RFC822 talks about only very few Time Zones (basically North American
Time Zones). 

Zone Name        Time Offset         DayLight Savings Time
==========================================================
PST                 +0800                  PDT

.....


Pointers to the related document are invited too.

If there is a lot of interest, i will post the List to the net.

Advance Thanks.

Anand
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From: joaquin@NISC.SRI.COM (Jose Garcia-Luna)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
Subject: **ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS TO MULTIMEDIA 93**
Date: 8 Jan 93 17:50:17 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: The Internet


Dear colleagues:

We are experiencing problems with large postscript submissions to
ElectronicSubmissions.Multimedia93@siggrapg.org, due to an alias link.

To provide a quick fix, we have created a directory called

        /incoming/mm93

in siggraph.org (128.248.245.250).

If you have experienced problems sending your submission
electronically, please try the following:

Use anonymous ftp to siggraph.org and put your file into

        incoming/mm93/your-file-name

and then send Venkat Rangan  a message with your file name. 

If you have problems submitting your paper electronically, please send
email to Venkat Rangan. You should receive a response over the weekend.

Our sincere apologies for the inconvenience.

PS: **NOTE THAT FULL PAPERS ARE REQUIRED**

JJ
From: us048503@cc016.mmm.com us048503 (Art Hurst)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: elm to softswitch link
Date: 7 Jan 93 19:38:19 GMT
Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN  55144-1000 US
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]


	I am interested in learning how to incorporate internet email to
	softswitch. has anyone done this? Any ideas appreciated.

--
Art Hurst                                         Email: ahhurst@mmm.com
3M Company                                        Phone: (805)388-4170
Digital Storage Products Division                 FAX:   (805)388-4804
Camarillo CA 93012
From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: ">From " lines and "corrupt folder" msg
Date: 8 Jan 1993 22:54:15 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


On 7 Jan 1993 21:55:45 GMT barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) said:
>In article <9301072058.AA14276@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof) writes:
>>On Tue, 29 Dec 92 14:37:09 EST tom@crc.doc.ca (Thomas Erskine) said:
>>>In article <9212260325.AA18454@SERVER.uwindsor.ca> you write:
>>>>If not, what is the *EXACT* command to give to "vi" in order to
>>>>...
>>>:1,$s/^>From /From /
>>>...
>>A private reply gave me the following alternative:
>>    :%s/^>\(From .*\)/\1/c
>>which askes for confirmation at each occurrance.

>The "mbox format" requires that ALL lines beginning with "From "
>be changed to ">From ".  This includes BOTH the body and the header.

Ahh...  So IMHO whoever defined the "mbox format" should also (have)
come up with a "delousing" utility.  Fair's fair, right?  :-)
Any suggestions/hints as to who I should approach for a cleanup
utility that also takes care of the body of the item?


>The beginning of a new piece of mail is found by looking for "From "
>in the beginning of the line.

Yes, this was clear.
Let's assume the BODY of an item contains a line answering exactly
to the syntax of the "From " line, with a blank line preceding it,
plus some other header lines (the author is giving an example of
some header lines), and a trailing blank line.
The receiving software will prefix that "From " line with a ">".
Assume the user grumbles and edits the item, removing that ">"
because he knows it doesn't belong there.
When he then references the folder containing that item, there will
now be one more item than before, right?
Or does "elm" understand that this is still the body of that item?
I hope the latter...

Regards.
$$/


Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: Permanent status
Originator: guckes@medusa
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 00:14:28 GMT

gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone) writes:

[Sven]
>>Why on earth would we want stati like "private" or "confidential" with email ?
>
>Ummm, it could be that sometimes you have folk looking over your shoulder
>or some such, and sometimes you don't?  or that there are some things 
>you would read in a public cluster or dump to a public printer, 
>and some you want back in your own private cubbyhole?  

If we had to write software that ensures that the mail replies from
postings to alt.sex.bondage won't get printed out by careless folk -
then we might forget about it at all.

How about keeping people looking over your shoulder ? (hint hint)

-- 
Sven@safe.software.not |
I need a prog that prevents me from doing Something Silly[tm].
From: jpd@discovery.cl.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Where can I ftp  the latest/greatest Source for Elm (Version 4PL20?)
Date: 7 Jan 93 00:16:02 GMT
Reply-To: jpd@discovery.cl.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: discovery.cl.msu.edu

If you  can answer Subject, please e-mail me.
---
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Joseph P. DeCello III                      e-mail:  jpd@cad.msu.edu
Michigan State University                      ph:  (517) 353-3027 
Specialized Computing Support Services           1:00pm - 5:00pm EST
From: ophof@SERVER.uwindsor.ca (Scott Ophof)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: "Reply to *typed* address"
Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:25:10 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


When one hits "r" from the index screen or while reading an item, 
one means "reply to whatever originator/sender/reply-to address is
in the header of this item".

But other than laboriously rewriting the address on the headers
screen, there's no (simple) way to specify a different address.
And it's so much easier to specify the addr while one can still see it
in an item or so, whereas a twitch of the finger can send the item to
the wrong addr if this action has to be delayed till after writing the
item...

In the doc I have access to, the "r" command is explained, but there
seems to be no "R" command.  And "R" isn't recognized by this version
of elm.  

Request:
What about supporting "R" as a command where one can specify the address
one wishes to use?  Or alias, of course.
If already on the wishlist, then add me as pro-voter.  ;-)

Regards.
$$/


Xref: sparky comp.mail.elm:3937 comp.sys.sun.admin:9935
From: blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Timed out on locking mailbox?
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:10:39
Organization: AWA Defence Industries
Distribution: usa
	<rhoward.726024194@matd> <1i7sfrINN3n4@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
	<1i7taeINN3tj@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: coolibah.awadi.com.au
In-reply-to: vincent@cad.gatech.edu's message of 3 Jan 1993 18:36:46 -0500

>>>>> On 3 Jan 1993 18:36:46 -0500, vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) said:
V> NNTP-Posting-Host: cae.cad.gatech.edu

V> In <1i7sfrINN3n4@cae.cad.gatech.edu> vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:
>In <rhoward.726024194@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
>>>vincent@cad.gatech.edu (Vincent Fox) writes:

[stuff deleted]

>Hmmmm. I did apply a pile of patches to my 4.1.2, one of which was 100075-08,
>which claims to fix all the evils of rpc.lockd. Perhaps it is actually
>causing the problem in this case. I will revert to the old copy and see
>what that does.

V> Yep, I reverted to rpc.lockd.FCS on the clients and no problems. I'm not
V> sure this is such a great idea though since there were so many things
V> wrong with the original lockd. Oh well, maybe Sun actually has *another*
V> fix by now. I'm still running the revised rpc.lockd on the server and
V> it all seems to work okay. Strange......

You may want to get the later version of the lockd patch, the latest
version that I know of is 100075-09.  Also take note that not all -08
versions of the patch were created equal, there were two versions on
the -08 version of the patch, one works the other does not :-(



--
Brett Lymn
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
From: fcf@n1gva (F. C. Floberg)
Subject: Alias bug? Elm 2.3 PL4
Organization: Evil Weather Machines LTD
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 93 22:32:23 GMT


Hi,
	I'm having trouble with elm 2.3 PL4 user aliases.
	From within elm, I can create aliases, list them, lookup a person,
	and delete an alias. However, only the first alias in the list is
	usable. When looking up any other person or trying to send mail to
	them, thier address expands to an empty string. 

	Example:

		The output of the 'l' command in the Alias submenu shows:

		userA-alias = UserA's Fullname = userA@hostA
		userB-alias = UserB's Fullname = userB@hostB
		userC-alias = UserC's Fullname = userC@hostC

		The output of the 'p' command shows:

		Check for person: userA-alias
		Aliased address: userA@hostA (UserA's Fullname)

		Check for person: userB-alias
		Aliased address:

		Check for person: userC-alias
		Aliased address:

	I've studied the source (though I don't follow hashing very well) and
	see no obvious problems. Running elm with debugging turned on shows 
	nothing major (?) except a warning that the system wide alias file
	dosen't exist (as I don't have system wide aliases).

	Elm is running under Interactive Unix System V r3.2.
	Has anyone experienced this problem? Any fixes or suggestions?

	BTW: Essentially the same configuration/compiled in options of Elm
	works fine 'n dandy (tm) under 386BSD 0.1 (?!) A clue maybe?

Thanks,
Fred

-- 
Fred Floberg - N1GVA at Evil Weather Machines LTD.
email: ...!uunet!hsi!a3bee2!n1gva!fcf
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
From: horn@freefall.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Horn)
Subject: Segment Violation signal!
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:42:45 GMT

Hi,

Hi I just got elm PL20 up and running.  But with that patch I occasionally get
the following error:

	Segment Violation signal!

	Emergency exit taken! All temp files intact!

First of all, I'm running SunOS 4.1.3.  The only times that I've been able to
get this to occur are when:
	I'm reading from my spool folder
	I'm reading a message w/out a "Status:" header
	I'm using either the builtin or builtin+ pagers
When all of these things are true and I hit 'x' I get the above mentioned
error - every time.

Anyone else noticed this?
Later,
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From: mrbulli@btoy1.rochester.NY.US (Mr. Bulli (private account))
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: how do I set the default Reply-To: field?
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:33:14 GMT
Reply-To: mrbulli@btoy1.rochester.NY.US
Organization: Private UUCP site
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]

On 7 Jan 93 13:08:38 GMT Frederic Devernay,Thesard,C012,657830 (devernay@sophia.inria.fr) wrote:
: Is there a way to tell elm to always set the Reply-To: field to
: my full address, like something to put in the elmrc file?
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: <_>                                                           |
: | |    Frederic Devernay                                      |
: | |    Projet ROBOTVIS -- INRIA Sophia Antipolis -- FRANCE    |
: | |    Frederic.Devernay@sophia.inria.fr                      |
: | |___________________________________________________________/
: `-'

Create a file $HOME/.elm/elmheaders with the fields you want to have. Mine 
looks like that:

	Reply-To: mrbulli@btoy1.rochester.NY.US
	Return-Receipt-To: mrbulli@btoy1.rochester.NY.US

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Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
From: guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes)
Subject: Re: Permanent status
Originator: guckes@medusa
Organization: Free University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 18:04:55 GMT

jimbo@leland.Stanford.EDU (Godfather of Soul) writes:

>I was wondering--I know how to set the action and priority
>headers to generate a message with action and urgent status,
>but how does one generate a message with private or confidential status?

I was wondering--I know how to read my mailbox and I have a password for
my account. Why on earth would we want stati like "private" or
"confidential" with email ?

Jimbo, how many people have access to your account and mailbox ?

-- 
Sven@open.access.not | How do you generate a status "email" for your email ?
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