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From: petebob@sequent.UUCP (Pete_Bob Apple)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Old style headers generated by Elm incompatible with Berkeley ?
Message-ID: <22753@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 89 08:59:27 GMT
References: <3832@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: petebob@crg2.UUCP (Pete Apple)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <3832@blake.acs.washington.edu> lgl@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence G Lundblade) writes:
>After doing a bit more testing, I see this is more obscure than I thought.
>The hanging occurs in Berkeley mail when there is entries after the
>address "xx (yy)". That is
>"Cc: xxx (yy)"       works
>"Cc: xxx (yy), zzz"  inifinite loop with "r" command.
>
>The reason for my concern is not so much a local problem -- we can fix
>that easily -- but for other's using Berkeley mail on our campus and
>on the Internet. Berkeley is used a lot because iot is sort of the
>default. I'll still suggest that Elm consider the "name <addr>" style
>headers because I can't see any thing to lose by going to them, and
>the change is easy.
>

There's code in the Berkeley mail to handle "()", it's just broken in 4.2.
The 4.3 version of Mail fixed a bug in the file names.c involving the 
yankword() routine that caused the endless loop.  Basically, it's a coding
error on someones part in Mail.  If you have access to the source, 
it's an easy fix, if not, upgrade to 4.3.  But the bug is not in Elm,
and it should not be changed.

The simpliest thing to do if you're mailing to someone on a 4.2 machine
is not include the "()" part of the address..  Or, use /usr/ucb/Mail
to mail to them..  Or, get them to use elm.  :-)


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