BSD 4.2 Mail not RFC822-compliant?

[Ronald O. Christian]

>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.

I just performed the same experiment (Sequent Symmetry running
Dynix 3.0.something.... 12, I think) and did not see the problem.

>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.

Yeah, I just looked again, and sendmail at our site does exactly
the same thing.  My network administrator is not here right now,
so I can't say what he might have done (if anything) to fix the
problem.  I suspect a minor change to sendmail.cf.

>/usr/ucb/Mail very badly needs an overhaul; the AT&T folks basically
>have already done it, and called the result mailx.

The AT&T salesperson pushed mailx really hard as a clean rewrite of berkeley
Mail, but our copy (SysV on a Vax 11/780) dumped core randomly and frequently.
Perhaps they've come out with something since that works?

>It is interesting to
>note that Sun's /usr/ucb/Mail is actually mailx.

With how much work done by Sun??  At least the network stuff must
have been added by Sun -- AT&T has only recently acknowledged the
existance of SMTP mail.


				Ron
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      Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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