gnu emacs 1, sun sendmail 0

[Benson Margulies]

Anyone interested in mysteries?

Take a mail message in a file, headers and all.

/usr/lib/sendmail -m -v -i < File

will send it along, parsing for the necessary data from the text.

Now, run the same command line from inside gnu emacs, where the destination
is an alias.

sendmail will (at least for us) corrupt the from address of the mail
to be the first address on the mailing list.

The versions involved are 4.0.1 and 18.53.

This breaks plain ^Xm in gnu emacs.

It can be circumvented with an explicit -f to sendmail.

Since I don't have sun source, I can't even begin to look into
where the stupid answers come from.

--benson