[381] in Athena Bugs
Re: lpr -m (mail notification)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
Mon May 16 12:12:47 1988
From: Henry Mensch <henry@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, postmaster@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 14 May 88 21:11:22 -0400.
Date: Mon, 16 May 88 12:12:08 EDT
> The mail notifications sent by "lpr -m" are getting sent to (or at
> least directed at) the workstation that submitted the job, rather than
> the mailhub.
> I would consider this to be a bug not in lpr but in the mail system.
> It would seem likely that sendmail wouldn't grok MX records and WKS
> queries (a la RFC 974 or whatever obsoletes), but I think that would
> be the right solution.
I don't think this is the right solution, but I agree that it is a
problem. I'll put this on the list of things to change/fix.
-- Henry
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