cpc@ames-prandtl.arpa (Chuck Collins) (10/20/86)
Has anyone made the necessary fixes to 4.2 BSD mail that causes it to interpret a "." in a reply address to be some sort of Berkeley-internal network address? (Try replying to an address "name@any.x", it sends the mail to some system named "onyx"!?) I just tried it on 4.3 and something different occurs, which also looks wrong to me (cpc@any.x turns into any.cpc@x). We thank you for your support Chuck Collins ...hplabs!ames!amelia!cpc cpc@ames-nas
chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) (10/28/86)
In article <4731@brl-smoke.ARPA> cpc@ames-prandtl.arpa (Chuck Collins) writes: >Has anyone made the necessary fixes to 4.2 BSD mail that causes it to >interpret a "." in a reply address to be some sort of Berkeley-internal >network address? It need not be fixed to do this: it does it already. You meant, no doubt, to ask for fixes to *stop* such `optimisations'. The problem is in /usr/src/ucb/Mail/optim.c, where it looks for network metacharacters. These are defined in config.c and (drum roll please) include a period. Unless you actually use any of this optim.c junk, it should be safe simply to remove the `.' from the definition in config.c and then recompile and reinstall Mail. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!chris CSNet: chris@umcp-cs ARPA: chris@mimsy.umd.edu