[17242] in Athena Bugs
Re: problem with `/bin/mail' on 8.3.17 Indy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Wed Oct 6 05:42:20 1999
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 06 Oct 1999 05:42:14 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of Wed, 6 Oct 1999 01:35:50 -0400 (EDT)
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<jhawk@MIT.EDU> (John Hawkinson) writes:
>
> /bin/mail is not a mail user agent. It is the final delivery agent
> for local mail and can also forward mail elsewhere.
I tested:
/bin/mail jmorzins@mit.edu
/usr/bin/mail jmorzins@mit.edu
/usr/sbin/Mail jmorzins@mit.edu
The last (/usr/sbin/Mail) gave a message with a To: header; the
first two did not. However, I find the documentation for mail_att
unclear on whether or not it is supposed to add a To: header.
