[10810] in Athena Bugs
re: bug report acknowledgements: from line parsing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brlewis@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 23 15:18:33 1993
From: brlewis@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 93 15:18:23 -0400
To: jik@GZA.COM
Cc: rptaurie@Athena.MIT.EDU, bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "Jonathan I. Kamens"'s message of Mon, 23 Aug 1993 14:48:55 -0400 <199308231848.OAA00871@pad-thai.aktis.com>
>Why should NetProb have to know how to handle *any* of the address
>formats specified in RFC822? It should just copy the From line en
>masse into the To line of the response it sends, and use some
>intelligent mail agent (such as "/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t") to do the
>address parsing.
Agreed; this is the right solution. The reason why NetProb tries to
parse the addresses is too gross for me to describe so soon after lunch,
but it can be fixed.
(Everything I've written that sends mail uses /usr/lib/sendmail -t. I
think -oi is a good idea; I'll start using it.)
