chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) (03/19/89)
[This is not "misc", but "uucp"; thus followups have been moved.] According to zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff): >According to rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo): >>ELM only recognizes lines of the format >> From [logname] [date] >>The question is: Is smail broken and disobeying the standard, or >>should ELM tolerate topmost from lines of such format? > >I think elm should tolerate it since it's an old standard. Jon here refers to "From [logname] [date] remote from [host]". A line of this form is the standard envelope for messages that are *in transit*. It is *not* the standard envelope for messages in mailboxes! Any mailer that deposits "remote from" envelopes in mailboxes is broken. >Of course I really think that all smail 2.5 sites should be running >my "lmail", which fixes this problem and adds forwarding to >programs and files. Let me know if you want a copy. Actually, I think that my deliver program is a rather more flexible and secure solution to the mail delivery problem; I wrote it after trying lmail. (And, yes, deliver folds the "remote from" field into the "From whoever" phrase.) But then, any author thinks his solution is best, right? :-) -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip> A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! "It's no good. They're tapping the lines."