reid@Glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (05/17/85)
> Locally, I validate the first line of each incoming message in > rmail. If it's not right, I reject it immediately, with stderr > "No From line !?!"; uuxqt then takes care of the rest. This has > always produced immediate results. Emacs-based mailers seem to > be the most frequent offenders, since they tend to shun unix > mail altogether, and call uux directly. > > Peter Most of the mail that I get from Unix sites that are not BSD-based is missing a "To" line. This turns out to be quite bogus for me, because my (very quirky) mail-reading program sorts the mail I receive into categories based on simple pattern matches, and any mail not addressed directly to me (i.e. mail that does not have my name in the To or CC field) is never put into the first category. All of the mail that I get from people inside BTL (typically in response to some outrageous thing I posted in netnews) ends up in this bit-purgatory because of this. I'm not asking anybody to fix this; anything that reduces the volume of mail that I get is fine with me. I'm just curious as to why it happens. Brian -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA
honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman) (05/19/85)
It happens (no To: line) because /bin/mail, the standard UNIX mailer, doesn't put in a To: line. Next question. Peter
allyn@sdcsvax.UUCP (Allyn Fratkin) (05/23/85)
In article <503@down.FUN>, honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman) writes: > It happens (no To: line) because /bin/mail, the standard UNIX mailer, doesn't > put in a To: line. Next question. > > Peter It does not put a To: line if there is only one recipient. If there is more than one recipient, it does put in a To: line, even if there is one already. -- From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin allyn@UCSD.ARPA or UCSD EMU/Pascal Project {ucbvax, decvax, ihnp4} U.C. San Diego !sdcsvax!allyn "Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance."
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (05/25/85)
> > It happens (no To: line) because /bin/mail, the standard UNIX mailer, > > doesn't put in a To: line. Next question. > > It does not put a To: line if there is only one recipient. If there is more > than one recipient, it does put in a To: line, even if there is one already. It depends on which standard UNIX mailer you're talking about. The "To:" line stuff was added to "/bin/mail" in System III; System V has a flag to either enable this (with it disabled by default) or disable it, I forget which. Guy Harris