Bug in Mail (4.2bsd ucb/Mail)
Barry Shein
Does anyone know off-hand the fix to a bug in replying to mail
which causes a repeated reply address, for example:
[this is on a SUN running 3.0 but I've seen it on our vanilla 4.2bsd VAX also]
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I'll try to hunt it down but I suspect someone already has, thanks in
advance if you have a fix.
-Barry Shein, Boston University
g...@sun.uucp
> which causes a repeated reply address, for example:
>
> [this is on a SUN running 3.0 but I've seen it on our vanilla 4.2bsd VAX
> also]
I tend to doubt that you've seen it on a vanilla 4.2BSD VAX; you sure won't
see it on a vanilla 4.3BSD VAX - what you see there is
To: bu-cs.bu:ab@edu bu-cs.bu:alpert@edu bu-cs.bu:karenl@edu
bu-cs.bu:veress@edu ho...@bu-cs.bu.edu
Subject: Re: changes
which still isn't what you want (4.3BSD "Mail" seems still to believe in the
existence of Berknet, so it gets confused about "." in domain names).
The bug in question is in some code in "mailx" - the Sun 3.0 "Mail" is
derived from "mailx". "mailx" is a hacked-up version of the 4.1BSD "Mail",
with a bunch of new stuff added (one such addition caused the bug you saw);
we put all the changes between 4.1BSD "Mail" and 4.2BSD "Mail" that applied
to "mailx" into it to make the Sun 3.0 "Mail".
A bug fix to "mailx" has been posted to "net.bugs.usg".
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Guy Harris
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