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Subject: Re: your mail
From: pdc @ lunch . engr . sgi . com (Paul Close)
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 10:36:30 -0700 (PDT)
To: david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com
Cc: sergio @ datatrade . sm (Sergio Tiezzi)
In-reply-to: <199606111607.LAA14680@miaow.sps.mot.com> from "Dave Wolfe" at Jun 11, 1996 11:07:48 AM

> [ Your mail system is really broken! All I got in the From: header was
> "(Sergio Tiezzi)", i.e. no e-mail address. ]
> 
> [ Sergio Tiezzi writes: ]
> > 
> > when i use approve script i get: " mail: Null names are not allowed"
> 
> Just guessing, but I'd say your $HOME/.majordomo file isn't set up
> correctly. You must provide the list name, the password, and the Mj
> e-mail address. Note that you can specify 'approve -d' to invoke approve
> to dump what it would mail to stdout for verification.

No, I'd say you were right the first time when you pointed out that his mail
system did not put an address in the From: header.  That would be a "null
name" from the mailer's point of view.
-- 
Paul Close <pdc@sgi.com>                          http://reality.sgi.com/pdc
			 No fate but what we make


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