[comp.unix.aix] Berkeley mail has the BerkNet bug on AIX

paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) (11/01/90)

When /usr/ucb/mail under AIX 3.1 is given a fully-qualified name as a From:
address, using reply will generate garbage addresses.

Example:  foo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu will be transformed to ux1.uiuc:foo@edu .

Fix by applying the following patch to /usr/src/ucb/mail/config.c .  That is
if you have sources.  Otherwise you're SOL - SOP from object-only vendors.

Is anyone thinking of porting 4.3 or 4.4 to the RS6000?

/pbp
========
*** /tmp/,RCSt1013475	Wed Oct 31 11:45:47 1990
--- /tmp/,RCSt2013475	Wed Oct 31 11:45:48 1990
***************
*** 29,35 ****
  /*
   * Set of network separator characters.
   */
! char	*metanet = "!^:%@.";
  
  /*
   * Host table of "known" hosts.  See the comment in configdefs.h;
--- 29,35 ----
  /*
   * Set of network separator characters.
   */
! char	*metanet = "!^:%@";
  
  /*
   * Host table of "known" hosts.  See the comment in configdefs.h;
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         Paul Pomes

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jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) (11/01/90)

From article <1990Oct31.175534.23611@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, by paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO):
> Is anyone thinking of porting 4.3 or 4.4 to the RS6000?

No, but I did move to sendmail 5.65...

-John

leclair@chamois.cs.uiowa.edu (Jeanne Leclair) (11/01/90)

> In article <1990Oct31.175534.23611@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:
> 
> |> Example:  foo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu will be transformed to ux1.uiuc:foo@edu .

I received a fix from my SE a couple days ago.  It should be available from
other SEs, now.

Jeanne

ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) (11/02/90)

In article <1990Oct31.175534.23611@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> paul@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO) writes:

Paul> Is anyone thinking of porting 4.3 or 4.4 to the RS6000?

Not that I am aware of.  I have heard rumors from the other end of the state
that Mach is on the horizon for the RS/6000.  They still need to figure out
the MMU and IBM is being no help what so ever.


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