[mail.uk-sendmail-workers] Problem with reply

mm@maths.qmw.ac.uk (Malcolm MacCallum) (02/03/91)

It appears that the reply command of BSD mail, used on messages with local
names (such as my own mm) in the Cc: field, generates a return address
of the form ac:mm@uk which of course is rubbish. Other addresses seem to
work ok. Can anyone explain where to look for the cause? We are using
uk-sendmail 2.1

A.Macpherson@stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew Macpherson) (02/03/91)

You have just run into ucbmail (and Mailtool) failure to comply with RFC822
/ 1023.  A list of recipients should be comma seperated, but Eric Allman
decided to be nice to users of ucbmail and allowed a space separated list as
an option.

To re-enable this misfeature look for Oof in your config file, and change it
to Oot.  You may find it better to replace ucbmail with elm, mush or mh.
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