The client.cf file is now complete and ready to use for sending all kinds of user mail. As you did before, send mail to yourself by using sendmail directly:
%./sendmail -Cclient.cf
you
Subject: testing
To:
you
testing
.
Retrieve this message as you usually receive mail and save it to a file. The contents of that file should look something like this:
From you@mail.us.edu Fri Dec 13 05:47:47 1996 Return-Path: <you@mail.us.edu> Received: from here.us.edu (you@here.us.edu [123.45.67.8]) by mail.us.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id FAA13451 for <you>; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 05:47:46 -0700 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 05:47:44 -0700 From: you@mail.us.edu (Your Full Name)Message-Id: <199509091244.GAA13434@here.us.edu>
note Received: by here.us.edu; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 05:47:44 -0700 Subject: testing To: you testing
Note the change between this message's header and that of the
previous message you sent. Instead of the hub machine adding
a Message-ID:
header, the local machine added that
header. You can tell because the local machine's name
appears there instead of the hub's name.
Actually, the Date:
header was also added locally, but
there is nothing to indicate that fact.
A Date:
header should be added locally
to accurately reflect the posting date of the message. If
you didn't supply a Date:
header, instead allowing the
hub to supply it, and the hub were down for
a while, that header would be inaccurate by the
amount of time the hub was down.