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Thu Oct 14 10:41:05 MDT 1999

On Thu, Oct 14, 1999 at 10:12:53AM -0600, David Outteridge wrote:
>That's interesting, this is what I received.

[...]

>From: a|x <anton at se.fujitsu.co.id>

My bet is that it's the pipe in the user name that caused the trouble.
Sendmail is probably being paranoid and dropping the from address just
to be safe.

It seems that QMail handles this with no problems (by default, qmail
hands off sender/recipient information to shell programs you have in
your .qmail files as environment variables).

Sean
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