dalton@gladys.UUCP (David Dalton) (01/02/86)
I think I have identified some bugs in the email program for the AT&T 7300. (Email is the windowed program that costs extra, not /usr/bin/mail, or mailx, which is available free from The Store). -- If an L.sys entry is too long, mail sent to any remote system will fail. Apparently email cannot handle an L.sys line longer than 100 characters. Any characters over 100 are somehow passed to the rmail command which is transmitted to the receiving computer. -- A long pathname in the To: field will choke email. The limit appears to be 30 or 32 characters, even though the To: field allows about 40 characters. -- Email does not check for a "Forward to username" comment in the /usr/mail/username file. It appends new mail to the file anyway, and nothing is forwarded. If a user who has a forward entry in his /usr/mail file invokes email, the forward entry is wiped out. David Dalton [ihnp4!burl!gladys!dalton]
jss@ihu1e.UUCP (Smith) (01/07/86)
> I think I have identified some bugs in the email program for the AT&T > 7300. (Email is the windowed program that costs extra, not /usr/bin/mail, > or mailx, which is available free from The Store). > > -- If an L.sys entry is too long, mail sent to any remote system will fail. > Apparently email cannot handle an L.sys line longer than 100 characters. > Any characters over 100 are somehow passed to the rmail command which > is transmitted to the receiving computer. > ... > David Dalton [ihnp4!burl!gladys!dalton] I have an L.sys entry of 119 characters it has not caused me a problem. -- J. S. Smith AT&T IW There are lots of opinions around this place, but these are mine and no one else's (pitty the poor soul if they do share mine.)