What to do about "remote from" lines

[Jerry Aguirre]

This refers to systems running 4.1 BSD so all you 4.2 people please
don't respond with data about sendmail.

I have run into a problem interfacing the various mail programs to
each other.  When mail comes in via uucp it gets the "remote from"
string appended to the "From" line.  This causes the Berkeley Mail
program to not recognize this as a "From" line.  The mail is
displayed as the tail end of the previous mail message.

I can see two fixes to this problem:

	1 - Use the rmail program which corrects the "From" lines
	    added to uucp mail.

	2 - Modify Mail to allow "remote from" on the "From" line.

The comments in rmail say that if you are not an arpanet gateway then
just link /bin/rmail to /bin/mail.  But this does not work when the
Berkeley Mail program is being used.

So, is the Berkeley Mail program being to picky or should I use rmail?

				Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
{hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|tolerant|allegra|tymix}!oliveb!jerry