new nmh
Hello,
After recieving the security alert regarding nmh yesterday I installed the new
version and everything seemed to go smoothly. However, Today I noticed that
the "From:" line in my email messages now has my local address...
mclin@mendocino.colorado.edu
rather than my "visible_name" address, which is
mclin@casa.colorado.edu.
This creates a problem, first of all because my machine is set up to refuse
connections from all but a few hosts. This means that most people using
"reply" to respond to one of my emails will probably have their message
blocked by my system. The second problem is that this is a laptop, so it's
often not connected to the net at all, but in transit someplace. I generally
have my mail sent to our server (casa) and just pick it up remotely from where
ever I happen to be. It's very inconvenient to have folks reply to my messages
and have them sent to mendocino rather than casa.
Does anybody know what might be going on? I suppose this could be coincidental
with installing the new nmh, but probably not. As far as I know smail should
append the From: field to the header, which presumabely is which that
parameter is set in the smail/config file. I don't understand why nmh should
have anything to do with this, but I'm far from expert in such matters.
FYI: I'm running smail version 3.2.0.102-1 (yep, just installed the latest...
didn't help) on slink with kernel 2.0.36.
Of course, anybody responding to me should send the message to
mcl@casa.colorado.edu rather than using reply. Convenient, no?
Thanks,
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kevin
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EMAIL: mcl@casa.colorado.edu WWW: http://casa.colorado.edu/~mcl/
SNAIL MAIL: Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy CB 389
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