From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: Re: What happened to "From "???? Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 09:33:46 -0400 Message-ID: <20050706133346.GA1367@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> References: <20050703172347.GA485@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> <200507050039.j650dsDq000725@meridian.ph> <20050705125308.GB1109@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> <20050706155732.4e735cb1@localhost> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050706155732.4e735cb1@localhost> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: heispf@skyinet.net Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On 07-06, Peter wrote: Hal: > > One final query: Can you invoke: env in any of your > > userspace or even root and tell me what the variable $MAIL reports? > > For years the "normal" has always been /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME.. > > Will be interesting to see what your working box reports.. > > MAIL=/var/mail/heisspf OK another enlightenment.. /var/mail/heisspf will also be mirrored, exactly, as /var/spool/mail/heisspf... But you are not using that.. > > Sorry not to have mentioned all my setup. I am using procmail to filter my > mail and for MUA I use mainly exmh, then mail>nail and occasionally like now > sylpheed-claw. Exmh and sylpheed compliment each other both using > nmh. Therefore no mail ever enters /var/mail/heisspf instead goes straight to > various mail boxes and for spam to> /dev/null. > > Since I used Pine only briefly in the beginning with Linux and then quickly > switched to exmh with procmail I do not remember having seen From_. > > Thanks for pointing out to me that my mail now comes from meridian.ph. This is > the provider for my broadband connection, however, I have no e-mail account > with them, therefore, the mail will bounce. I was not aware of this problem. > Will see how to sort this out. OK, so you've changed over to the "new" mail schemes all the way.. All the queries answered with a little more knowledge, for better or worse, eh?? I may have a rocky road ahead.. -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs