Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!stevesc
From: stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm misfeature?
Message-ID: <8038@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Oct 89 20:23:18 GMT
Reply-To: stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
Lines: 22

I've noticed that when Elm can't find a comment field for a reply, it
uses the user name as the comment field (only some of the time).

Here's an example.  Suppose I get mail from "john" with no comment
field.  He's not in /etc/passwd because he's on a networked machine at
this site.  Elm will generate "To: john (john)" which is ugly.

This only happens for local user names that aren't in /etc/passwd.
There's no problem for other sites, and it can find comment fields
just fine in /etc/passwd.

I'd call this a misfeature rather than a bug.  It doesn't really hurt
anything, but it does generate headers that are really ugly for people
whose mail readers don't strip out redundancy.

I just read the bug list a couple of days ago and don't recall seeing
this one.  If it is and I overlooked it, never mind.  I'm running
version 2.2, patch level 11.

-- 
	Steve Schonberger	microsoft!stevesc@uunet.uu.net
	"Who built the Space Needle?  Elvis!" -- Mojo Nixon