Re: What happened to "From "????

Peter
2005-07-06T07:57:32Z

> On 07-05, Peter wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using slack 10.1, kernel 2.4.29, sendmail-8.13.3 and getmail 4.2.5
and
> > all the mail has the From: ,however, none has From_ . In fact I have never

> > seen that.

On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:53:08 -0400
Hal MacArgle <haltec@kvinet.com> wrote:

> Greetings again Peter and thanks much for the input..
>
> I have additional suggestions from Ray that I'll respond to
> but since you're using a similar lash up I have some more queries for
> you if OK:
>
> Of course the Unix From_, as the first string in every
> message, has been around for more than the 15 years I've been running
> Unix.. It is the way the messages are kept separate in the one file
> that contains all of them; heretofore, usually,
> /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN.. That was my first head thumper; the change
> to the first string being From:...
>
> What mailer, MUA, are you using?? I use either Mutt or MailX,
> now called 'Nail' for some reason, but still invoked with the symlink
> 'mail'... During all this I tried Pine with the same problem so I
> removed it..
>
> Where do your "From:" messages go? In /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN
> or to another directory/folder in userspace?? As I understand it;
> QMail type mail stores each message individually rather than in one,
> could be large, file at /var/spool/mail....
>
> My original problem came to light on the machine that didn't
> have any version of Sendmail installed because, IIRC, Getmail doesn't
> need Sendmail or Procmail to deliver messages, like Fetchmail, etc..
>
> One final query: Can you invoke: env <return> 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

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.

> We'll keep hacking away as the learning abounds.. Thanks.

Regards
--
Peter