[15595] in Athena Bugs
MH: send(1) junks drafts that lack recipients (Was: exmh bug)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Oct 22 22:08:12 1997
To: Byron M Roscoe <rroscoe@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:23:42 -0400."
<199710222223.SAA04347@eecs-ath-34.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 22:08:01 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Byron M Roscoe <rroscoe@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>This mailer lets you send a message when you haven't specified any recipients.
>
>It says Draft 1 sent!
>
>Where does it go?
>
>Is it recoverable?
Actually, you are seeing a bug in MH, rather than a bug in exmh.
(Exmh is a graphical front end to underlying MH routines.)
I tested MH a few times, and discovered that it is indeed possible
to tell it to deliver messages with no recipient.
As far as I can tell, MH obligingly drops the messages on the floor.
There's probably no way to recover your draft, unless you were
fortunate to have set a "Fcc" header field.
MH is probably too bug-riddled for this one bug to be worthy of
attention, but I'm cc'ing this to bugs anyway to keep jhawk happy.
Sorry we couldn't do anything about this; hopefully if you notice
any other bugs, we'll be able to resolve them better.
Sincerely,
--
Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
