On 19-May-98 Doug Smoak wrote:
> Hi, when I first tried to subscribe to this list, I got no confirmation.
> I then mailed to "listmaster" and was informed that my mail had a
> "Sender:" field of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and that I needed to
> fix my mail client.  I'm using NetScape and nowhere in its config am
> I listed as root... although, I do log in to the root account on RH5.0.
> So, where's this field come from?  Is NS calling sendmail for it's
> transport and sendmail adds it?  How can I fix it?  

The easiest answer is, create a user account and send mail from that.

Not sure how/why root gets appended to the outgoing mail but, it does in
the root account.

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