[6168] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.1H: chpobox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pvg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 5 15:39:28 1990
From: pvg@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 90 15:39:16 EDT
System name: e40-008-10
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.1H (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: SM
What were you trying to do?
I was trying to forward my mail to another system on the network.
I also wanted my mail to be delivered to my athena POBox. I read the
"answers to commonly asked questions" section that described in detail how
to go about it. The command that I used was similar to that given in
the description:
chpobox -s "pvg@ATHENA-PO-3.LOCAL,philip@lees-wdy.mit.edu"
This would after a few days forward my mail to my POBox and to my
account on lees-wdy.
What's wrong:
The problem with the command is that chpobox capitalizes everything
after the first username. For example, the ouput to the above command
was:
pvg@ATHENA-PO-3.LOCAL,PHILIP@LEES-WDY.MIT.EDU
This is a problem for me because the system on lees-wdy is case
sensitive and does not know who the user "PHILIP" is. It only knows
about the user "philip". The quick fix to this problem was to put my
network address first.
What should have happened:
The command chpobox should treat only the characters after each delimeter
"@" as hosts and capitalize them with the delimeter "," indicating a new
field. I would have expected the output to be:
pvg@ATHENA-PO-3.LOCAL,philip@LEES-WDY.MIT.EDU
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
The relevant documentation that I read was the section on "forwarding you
mail" in the "answers to commonly asked questions", and the manual page
on the command chpobox (which is not as clear as the first documentation).
