[net.mail] MH.5 bugs and/or difficulties

hans@log-hb.UUCP (Hans Albertsson) (10/08/85)

Two things occur:

First:
	On "repl" to a letter containing a "To:" list with names like
	veryfar!far!neighbour!local!name, a cc list will be constructed
	containing far!neighbour!local!name@veryfar.UUCP. While
	conceivably a proper sendmail could reconstruct the proper
	local reference, this is not satisfactory. 
	Fix, anyone???
	Which routine ACTUALLY is to blame??
	Does MH.5 use the sendmail rewriting, or does it do this on its own?
Second:
	When invoking "folder", regardless of how, it accurately reports
	on folder contents and all, but fails to set the current default
	folder. It reports something like 
	      TeX+ has   46 messages (   1-  46).
folder: bug: m_replace(key="Current-Folder",value="TeX"), continuing...
	on the command "folder +TeX".
	It seems from the code ( in m_replace ) that a field
	np->n_context points to nothing.
	What am I missing???
-- 
Hans Albertsson, USENET/uucp: {decvax,philabs}!mcvax!enea!log-hb!hans
						     ....!erix!erisun!hans
Real World:  ERICSSON Information Systems,Sundbyberg,SWEDEN

bd@hpda.UUCP (Bob Desinger) (10/22/85)

In article <305@log-hb.UUCP> hans@log-hb.UUCP (Hans Albertsson) writes:
> 	On "repl" to a letter containing a "To:" list with names like
> 	veryfar!far!neighbour!local!name, a cc list will be constructed
> 	containing far!neighbour!local!name@veryfar.UUCP.

Use "-noformat" in your .mh_profile entry for repl and send.  This runtime
option prevents mh.5 from producing Internet-format (user@site.CHANNEL)
addresses.  Mh.5 came from an Internet environment, so it prefers that.

> 	Does MH.5 use the sendmail rewriting, or does it do this on its own?

Mh.5 wasn't written with sendmail in mind, and unfortunately duplicates a lot
of sendmail's work.  (Sigh.  Mh.6 is better in this regard, but sometimes goes
a little too far, using the BERK compile-time #define.)

> folder: bug: m_replace(key="Current-Folder",value="TeX"), continuing...

Remove the "Current-Folder:" entry from your .mh_profile.  Mh now considers
everything in the .mh_profile as read-only; updates like current-folder are
written in a file called "context" in the folder/directory.

Bob Desinger, mh enthusiast