UCB Mail tries to be too smart
Frederick M. Avolio
avolio at decuac.dec.com
Tue Feb 21 00:33:16 AEST 1989
I strongly suggest that you -- anyone who wants control of how the Mail USer
Agent deals with things -- get ahold of a user agent with source code such
as ELM or GNU Emacs or something. (I am not endorsing any of these... I use
MH... Oh! Or MH. :-))
Then you can control what it does. /usr/ucb/mail tries to be smart about
unknown hosts as well as tries to handle BerkNet formats in addresses, which
is also a mistake nowadays. I think.
Fred
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