[4237] in testers
Re: nominal nmh bcc bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Sun Jun 13 20:47:58 1999
Message-Id: <199906140047.AAA405704@antharia.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:25:58 EDT."
<199906101425.KAA14862@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 20:47:46 -0400
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
> and it was only then that I noticed it fails to set a To: field
> and so MTA (sendmail) throws in an Apparently-To:. This is, of course,
> an RFC82[12] violation.
It only violates 822, not 821, and the violation is all on sendmail's
part, not nmh's (there's no RFC which specifies what the input to
sendmail has to look like), and it's a well-known sendmail bug, and
you can configure it to not do that (in either of the two ways you
suggested), but people know and love this particular bug, so I didn't
feel empowered to do so.
-- Dan
