john@moncol.UUCP (John Ruschmeyer) (10/12/87)
I have come across what would seem to be a minor bug in the recently posted version of smail. Specifically, trying to use 'mail' (actually, the 'svbinmail' front end) to send an empty letter results in an empty letter being sent. This, however, is inconsistant with the original /bin/mail (now /bin/lmail) which will not send any mail. I would assume that the problem is that smail is not smart enough to realize it should ignore the empty piece of mail and send nothing. Instead, it tacks on headers and passes it on to /bin/lmail which knows no better. It wouldn't be so bad except that it breaks /bin/calendar very nicely. (Every morning, you get this nice empty (except for headers) piece of mail.) To repeat: $ mail yourself </dev/null System specifics: Edition VII (v7) on a Perkin-Elmer 3220. -- Name: John Ruschmeyer US Mail: Monmouth College, W. Long Branch, NJ 07764 Phone: (201) 571-3557 UUCP: ...!vax135!petsd!moncol!john ...!princeton!moncol!john ...!pesnta!moncol!john Give computers an artificial intelligence and the next thing you know they want to use the same bathroom. - Allan Dean Foster
johnm@auscso.UUCP (John B. Meaders) (10/13/87)
I was curious about the same problem with /usr/bin/calendar.
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