Greetings,
I've been using procmail for years now and decided to integrate it
into the sendmail 8.8.5 installation on my SGI Indy a few days ago
using the FEATURE(local_procmail) available in the m4 setup system for
sendmail.
Everything is working fine except for 1 strangeness. If I send mail
from myself to myself the message gain an extra '>' quoted 'From '
line like this:
From labrown(_at_)splat(_dot_)niehs(_dot_)nih(_dot_)gov Tue Apr 8 13:38:31
1997
>From labrown Tue Apr 8 13:38:31 1997
Return-Path: <labrown>
Received: (from labrown(_at_)localhost)
by splat.niehs.nih.gov (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA03217
for labrown; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 13:38:30 -0400 (EDT)
Old-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 13:38:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Lance A. Brown" <labrown(_at_)splat(_dot_)niehs(_dot_)nih(_dot_)gov>
Message-Id:
<199704081738(_dot_)NAA03217(_at_)splat(_dot_)niehs(_dot_)nih(_dot_)gov>
To: labrown(_at_)splat(_dot_)niehs(_dot_)nih(_dot_)gov
Subject: testing
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 1997 13:38:30 -0400
This is directly from my mail spool. Further investigation reveals
that this ONLY happens if the mail is sent from a user on the SGI to
another user on the SGI. Messages delivered by way of an alias on
another machine get the same treatment as well.
I also have the same setup on two RedHat Linux boxes using 8.8.5 with
FEATURE(local_procmail) and they do NOT do this to the messages.
It really looks like procmail is quoting the existing From_ line and
adding a new one, but I cannot tell why it does it on the SGI but not
on the RedHat boxes.
Can anyone offer advice or explanation?
--[Lance]