[4238] in testers
Re: nominal nmh bcc bug
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Mon Jun 14 14:11:58 1999
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:11:50 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199906141811.OAA16194@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[4237] in testers"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
| 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),
I guess this is a difference of opinion. It seems clear to me that 822
should apply to programs that supply mail to sendmail with respect to
To: or Cc: hedaers, if only because of what empirically happens if you
don't (yes, sendmail will add Date: and Message-ID: fields for you,
so you can get away without supplying them).
Additionally, "just because no standard specifies this does not
mean there is no implicit specification or violation thereof."
Perhaps it is less a bug-report and more a "wart observation"
or "lame feature request".
--jhawk
| 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.
