Berkeley mail has the BerkNet bug on AIX

Paul Pomes - UofIllinois CSO paul at uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Thu Nov 1 04:55:34 AEST 1990


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 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu will be transformed to ux1.uiuc:foo at 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;
--
         Paul Pomes

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