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Subject: send-pr uses $LOGNAME for From and Reply To email addresses
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>Number:         32661
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       send-pr uses $LOGNAME for From and Reply To email addresses
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Dec 09 20:30:00 PST 2001
>Closed-Date:    Fri Dec 30 18:09:47 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Fri Dec 30 18:09:47 GMT 2005
>Originator:     Alan E
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Geeksrus.NET
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD wwweasel.geeksrus.net 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Sun Dec 2 19:14:12 EST 2001 root@wwweasel.geeksrus.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WWWEASEL i386

>Description:

Send-pr uses $LOGNAME as email address.

Patch uses $MAILNAME, then $(<~/.mailname), then $LOGNAME.

>How-To-Repeat:

Run send-pr. Look at names in <angle-brackets> on From and Reply To lines.

>Fix:

---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<---
--- send-pr.sh.orig	Sun Nov  4 19:27:21 2001
+++ send-pr.sh	Sun Dec  9 23:17:52 2001
@@ -99,8 +99,17 @@
   rm -f $PTEMP
 fi
 
-FROM="$ORIGINATOR <$LOGNAME>"
-REPLY_TO="$ORIGINATOR <${REPLY_TO:-${REPLYTO:-$LOGNAME}}>"
+# Try to find out originator's email address.
+if [ -n "$MAILNAME" ]; then
+    true
+elif [ -f $HOME/.mailname ]; then
+    MAILNAME="`sed -e '1q' $HOME/.mailname`"
+else
+    MAILNAME="$LOGNAME"
+fi
+
+FROM="$ORIGINATOR <$MAILNAME>"
+REPLY_TO="$ORIGINATOR <${REPLY_TO:-${REPLYTO:-$MAILNAME}}>"
 
 if [ -n "$ORGANIZATION" ]; then
   if [ -f "$ORGANIZATION" ]; then
---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<-snip---8<---
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->dd 
Responsible-Changed-By: sheldonh 
Responsible-Changed-When: Fri Dec 14 04:34:09 PST 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Dima kindly volunteered to have a look at this one. :-) 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32661 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: dd->freebsd-bugs 
Responsible-Changed-By: dd 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Nov 29 01:03:08 UTC 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I've been sitting on this too long and don't even remember the 
background for this issue. Returning to the regular bugs queue. Sorry 
about dropping the ball. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32661 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ceri 
State-Changed-When: Fri Dec 30 18:08:54 UTC 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
I kind of like the idea, but I cannot find a system that knows what 
~/.mailname, and therefore I surmise that the usefulness of this would 
be somewhat dminished. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=32661 
>Unformatted:
