BSD 4.2 Mail not RFC822-compliant?

[Arnold D. Robbins {EUCC}]

In article <555 at unocss.UUCP> fritz at unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell) writes:
>From fritz Thu Dec  8 19:16:19 1988
>Date: Thu, 8 Dec 1988 19:15:50 CST
>From: Tim Russell <fritz at unocss.unl.edu>
>To: fritz
>Subject: Test message.
>Message-Id: <CMM.0.88.597633350.fritz at unocss.unl.edu>
>Status: R
>
>This is a test message to demonstrate.
>
>& reply
>To: unl:fritz at edu fritz at unocss.unl.edu
>Subject: Re:  Test message.

The problem is that the To: address does not have an "@dom.ain" part.
For reasons I was not able to pin down, both the To: and the From:
address need to be either fully domain'ed or non-domain'ed ("fritz")
but having mixtures produces this problem.

/usr/ucb/Mail very badly needs an overhaul; the AT&T folks basically
have already done it, and called the result mailx.  It is interesting to
note that Sun's /usr/ucb/Mail is actually mailx.

The way I fixed things was to have my sendmail always put a domain,
even on mail from users on the same machine to each other.  Mail was
just too hard to fix. Sigh.
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