Re: new hamm nmh breaks header rewriting, isp becomes irate
kotsya@u.washington.edu (David Stern) writes:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I upgraded nmh on hamm from 0.17-1 to 0.22-1 and I just
> discovered my smail header rewriting is broke, and I think the new nmh
> is the culprit. smail remains on hold status in dselect. I've read
> the bug reports (there are none), I've read /usr/doc/nmh/DIFFERENCES.gz,
> but there is no mention of this.
>
> My isp has become irate. This is causing a lot of grief for a lot of
> people, and I hope the nmh package maintainer will please be far more
> considerate in the future. Since my mail will bounce from just about
> anywhere but the debian list, I can't very well send this to the nmh
> package maintainer right now, but you can trust that I will when this
> is fixed.
>
> Where can I get the nmh deb that works, 0.17-1 ?
How is it broken? I'm trying to imagine what nmh is doing that could
cause the header-rewriting to fail (unless nmh is trying to bypass
smail completely). The only thing I can think is that nmh has started
to append "@mailhostname" to your email address as it's going out. To
test this, here's something you can do:
Take your net connection down, and if you're using diald do a "force
down" to keep it down. Then, send a message with nmh to any address.
Now, do a:
tail /var/log/smail/logfile
and look at the second-to-last entry - it should start with
"Received FROM:" and then give the name as handed to it by nmh. For
example, suppose that nmh is now sending From: lines that look like
"kotsya@mydebianbox" - You
can then add the following to your /etc/smail/maps/frommap:
kotsya@mydebianbox kotsya@u.washington.edu
I know, it's annoying to have to add a new line to frommap each time
some program decides to pass your address along a slightly different
way, but the whole smtprewriter thing is just a big giant hack anyway.
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