From in 'mail' and 'mailx'

Peter J. Holsberg pjh at mccc.UUCP
Sat Feb 6 06:45:13 AEST 1988


Whenever I get a mail message from a remote site, the From line shows it
to be either from me(!) or from uucp.  For example:


>From pjh Fri Feb  5 15:17 EST 1988
>From uucp Fri Feb  5 15:17 EST 1988 forwarded by uucp
>From RPICICGE.BITNET!LISTSERV  Fri Feb  5 15:13:30 1988 remote from princeton
Received: from (TCPMAINT)RPICICGE.BITNET by CICGE.RPI.EDU on 02/05/88
  at 15:14:56 EDT
Received: by RPICICGE (Mailer X1.25) id 0395; Fri, 05 Feb 88 15:14:50
  EDT
Date:         Fri, 5 Feb 1988 15:14 EDT
From: Revised List Processor(1.5m)  <princeton!CICGE.RPI.EDU!LISTSERV>
Subject:      Output of your job "pjh%mccc"
To: mccc!pjh
Status: RO

> /PDGET PD:<MSDOS.EDITOR>EMACS14C.ARC
***Emergency request-limit cutback in effect.
***Requests limited to 1  per day.



>From uucp Thu Feb  4 20:23 EST 1988
>From jon  Thu Feb  4 19:52:20 1988 remote from jonlab
Received: by jonlab.UUCP (smail2.5)
	id AA00990; 4 Feb 88 19:52:20 EST (Thu)
To: mccc!pjh
Subject: Re:  Reel-to-reel
Message-Id: <8802041952.AA00990 at jonlab.UUCP>
Date: 4 Feb 88 19:52:20 EST (Thu)
From: jon at jonlab.UUCP (Jon LaBadie)
Status: RO

I am not at ease with tape formats, but I believe the format is refered
to as 1600 bpi.  As MIT is distributing many copies of a great deal of
software, and they only use one format, I suspect it is "universal".


Is there some flag I can change so that when I reply from inside 'mail'
or 'mailx' it will go to the address in the 'From:'?  Thanks.

-- 
Peter Holsberg                  UUCP: {rutgers!}princeton!mccc!pjh
Technology Division             CompuServe: 70240,334
Mercer College                  GEnie: PJHOLSBERG
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