Goofy mh problem

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I sent John my mh configs. I have a bunch of templates that I use. My 
Sendmail is somewhat vanilla. I do have a copy of O'Reilly's Sendmail book. 
In the past I found this book to be a good reference.
linuxguy at ici.net wrote:
> Try Jerry's solution first and see if it fits your needs.  I took it
> a step further and compiled my own sendmail binary and then hooked
> mh into it.  This way, I only had to configure sendmail for all my
> email needs.
> 
> The main benefit I sought by using sendmail was the 'genericstable'
> and the 'masquerade envelope' features.  smap might be another
> alternative, but I already know sendmail ;-)
> 
> I used to have a document outlining how I set it all up.  Maybe I can dig
> it out....
> 
> jc at trillian.mit.edu wrote:
> > Hi; me again.  It occurs to  me  that  maybe  someone  here  will  be
> > familiar  with the mh mailer, and might have a solution to one of the
> > silliest email problems I've seen yet (and I've seen a lot of  them).
> > I thought I'd give mh a try, after not using it for years, since it's
> > now available on linux and bsd systems and seems to basically work.
> > 
> > However, when I started using mh  on  this  machine,  something  that
> > rapidly  came to my attention was that a lot of people couldn't reply
> > to my messages.  The reason turned out to  be  that  it  was  sending
> > messages out with the header line like:
> >    From: <jc at trillian.mit.edu>, <jc at localhost>
> >    From: John Chambers <jc at localhost.mit.edu>
> > In test that I've done sending myself messages,  I've  seen  both  of
> > these.   Needless  to say, jc at localhost is of little use to people on
> > other machines, and jc at localhost.mit.edu simply bounces.   The  first
> > example  seems  to  work  with  most Unix-type mailers, but Microsoft
> > mailers discard the first address and use the second one.  Duh!
> > 
> > One of the funny cases is that when mediaone users try  to  reply  to
> > this,  their  mail  servers know how to deliver it, to someone called
> > "jc" in their own system.  He knows about me and has forwarded  me  a
> > few  messages,  but  I'd rather not bother him with messages intended
> > for me.
> > 
> > Anyhow, several people who have used mh have told me  that  they  are
> > sure  there's  a  simple  way  to  configure mh to send out the right
> > return address.  Unfortunately, while they insist that  it's  simple,
> > they  can't  actually tell me how to do it.  Something that you can't
> > type isn't all that useful, no matter how simple it is.  We've  spent
> > far too much time grovelling around in TFM pages, and not finding it.
> > 
> > Anyone know?  Or should I just dismiss mh as not usable yet?
> > 
> > (Funny thing is, on this machine, the /usr/bin/mail command does  the
> > same thing.  But the hostname and uname commands give the correct DNS
> > name for this machine.  Why both of these  mailers  do  something  so
> > bogus  is a real mystery.  One of our linux machines at work does the
> > same thing, and nobody there can diagnose it, either.  We have had  a
> > couple  of  comments that soon the pwd command will start saying just
> > ".", which is of course absolutely true.  ;-)
> > 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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