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sun4 8.0C: comp -- "no valid recipients", tries to send mail anyhow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Carla Fermann)
Fri Jun 21 17:24:08 1996
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 17:23:51 EDT
From: Carla Fermann <carla@MIT.EDU>
System name: ferd
Type and version: SPARC/5 8.0C
Display type: cgthree
Hi!
I don't know if this is really a bug or if it is supposed to work this
way, but it doesn't really make sense to me.
I used comp to create a message. I didn't have anyone on the To: line,
though. (yeah, I know that's not what you're supposed to do -- I'd
been working on the message off and on all day, and didn't want to
accidentally send it before I got the wording right). I forgot that I
didn't have a To:, and went ahead and exited emacs and typed "send" at
the what now? prompt.
When I did that, I got:
What now? send
Possible alias loop
No valid recipients
send: message not delivered to anyone
What now?
which makes sense to me. However, it also really did try to send the
message, so I got a copy bounced back from mailer-daemon. What's the
point of doing that when it has already told me it had errors?
Thanks,
Carla
