paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) (04/29/91)
A email gateway to the PLATO sites on the Novanet network is being
established at UIUC. Addresses within Novanet are specified as
user/group[/host] where /host is required for non-local addresses.
With 4.3 BSD-tahoe and younger /usr/ucb/Mail programs, this address
is no problem. The difficulty is with the 4.3 BSD-reno /usr/bin/mail
program. It is interpreting the '/' character as a filename delimiter
and is trying to do local delivery immediately to the non-existent
file instead of invoking sendmail.
Is this reasonable behavior in a MUA? It's certainly a radically different
behavior than older versions of the same program. Does it qualify as a bug?
/pbp
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Paul Pomes
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US Mail: UofIllinois, CSO, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-2910paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) (04/29/91)
paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes: >A email gateway to the PLATO sites on the Novanet network is being >established at UIUC. Addresses within Novanet are specified as >user/group[/host] where /host is required for non-local addresses. To clarify, addresses from the Internet would look something like user/group@host.novanet.org . /pbp -- Paul Pomes UUCP: {att,iuvax,uunet}!uiucuxc!paul Internet, BITNET: paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu US Mail: UofIllinois, CSO, 1304 W Springfield Ave, Urbana, IL 61801-2910