Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:2736 comp.unix.xenix:8905 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Smail 3.x breaks on UUCP Version 2 headers. Message-ID: <7225@ficc.uu.net> Date: 7 Dec 89 16:00:31 GMT Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 34 In UUCP version 2 (found in V7 UNIX, many versions of Xenix, and so on) mail looks like this when it reaches a machine: From xxxx remote from site >From user Subject: whatever Other: header-lines. body of message. xxxx is *usually* uucp, but may be whoever is logged in on the console at the time. This seems to confuse smail 3.x (currently in alpha testing at some sites), which drop both these lines and turn them into: From Postmaster Received-by: stuff including "smail 3.0"... From: Postmaster Message-ID: Subject: whatever Other: header-lines. body of message. This might be perfectly in accordance with RFC 2^n-1, but it's not very friendly. And considering the number of old Xenix machines out there (until fairly recently, most UNIX installations were Radio Shack model 16s running Xenix!), it'd probably be a good idea for the new smail to follow the footsteps of its predecessor and look for this pattern. Smail 2.5 has no problem with it. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it." -- Dennis