[9801] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.4G: repl
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 16 10:46:00 1992
From: gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 10:45:49 EDT
System name: W20-575-91
Type and version: CVAXSTAR 7.4G
Display type: SM
(actually, I started out on w20-575-50, a 5000/25, and switched computers,
thinking the problem was a machine in a flaky state rather than a bug in send)
What were you trying to do?
Reply to a letter.
What's wrong:
MH couldn't send the mail based on the header repl generated.
Here's the header of the message to which I was replying:
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Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA28600; Sat, 15 Aug 92 20:14:10 EDT
Received: from bkyast.Berkeley.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP
id AA18383; Sat, 15 Aug 92 20:14:08 EDT
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 17:13:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: "KING::JRZ"@BKYAST.BERKELEY.EDU (Joshua Zucker, UCB Astro, 510-643-3422)
Message-Id: <920815171334.20400a86@BKYAST.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject: No, I was not around.
To: gptesler@Athena.MIT.EDU
X-Vmsmail-To: BKYIM::SMTP%"gptesler@athena.mit.edu"
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Here's the header repl generated for me:
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To: "KING::JRZ"@BKYAST.BERKELEY.EDU (Joshua Zucker, UCB Astro,
510-643-3422)
Subject: Re: No, I was not around.
In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 15 Aug 92 17:13:34 -0700.
<920815171334.20400a86@BKYAST.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Here's what happened when I exited emacs to the whatnow program:
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What now? send
send: message not delivered to anyone
What now? quit
whatnow: draft left on /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/g/p/gptesler/Mail/draft
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And here's how I had to modify the header to successfully send the letter:
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To: "KING::JRZ"@BKYAST.BERKELEY.EDU
Subject: Re: No, I was not around.
In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 15 Aug 92 17:13:34 -0700.
<920815171334.20400a86@BKYAST.BERKELEY.EDU>
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What should have happened:
The various parts of MH should work together so that a header
produced by repl can be read by send.
In the event that an error is encountered, a more informative error
message would be useful. The error message I received, though factual, was
not sufficiently informative. "send: message not delivered to anyone" could
be interpreted as meaning that due to some network problem, it wasn't possible
to transmit mail.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
[Please replace this line with your information.]
