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From: tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tim Chown)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: expanding reply address in 2.3
Message-ID: <2856@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jun 90 15:09:51 GMT
Organization: University of Southampton, UK
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I posted recently asking why when generating a reply address elm 2.3
expanded a local to: recipient to recipient@fullhostname, when elm 2.2
didn't do this and direct mail (via 'm') to a local user didn't get
expanded either.  I got no reply on this group (though people mailed
me to say they had the same "problem").

The relevant code is in returnadd.c, at around line 330:

          /*
           * KLUDGE ALERT - DANGER WILL ROBINSON
           * We can't just leave a bare login name as the return address,
           * or it will be alias-expanded.
           * So we qualify it with the current host name (and, maybe, domain).
           * Sigh.
           */

          if (chloc(buffer, '@') < 0
           && chloc(buffer, '%') < 0
           && chloc(buffer, '!') < 0)
          {
#ifdef INTERNET
            sprintf(buffer + strlen(buffer), "@%s", hostfullname);
#else
            strcpy(buf, buffer);
            sprintf(buffer, "%s!%s", hostname, buf);
#endif
          }

I'm confused as to why a bare name can't be left, and if it can't,
then why isn't the bare name expanded when mailing using the 'm'
option for "direct" mail.  Is the kludge needed ?

Anyway, I've commented out the whole #ifdef .. #endif in the above
code and I seem to have the 2.2 functionality again.  Will I get
horrible side-effects ?

Cheers,
	Tim Chown
	T.Chown@ecs.soton.ac.uk