Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!duke!khera From: khera@sardine.cs.duke.edu (Vick Khera) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: BERK option hosers Message-ID: Date: 10 Sep 90 15:36:20 GMT Sender: news@duke.cs.duke.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Duke University CS Dept., Durham, NC Lines: 50 I recently got around to recompiling mh 6.6 without the BERK option. i wanted to have the nice display of the senders name in my scan listings. however, if a name has a "." in it (without quotes) as in Mr. Foo the MH parsing routines can't find an address and return this error: What now? w whom: bad address 'Mr. Foo ' - no at-sign after local-part (<), con tinuing... whom: no addressees What now? q -d [anthrax]/src/local/bin/mh-6.7% ali badname Mr. Foo [anthrax]/src/local/bin/mh-6.7% this all works fine with the BERK option. i figured that i should go ahead and upgrade to 6.7, so i did and got the same error. so for now i am stuck with using the BERK option. the addresses work fine with "." in them if the whole name part is in double-quotes or in parentheses: "Mr. Foo" I did not think this would be such a problem since i can make any ``bad'' aliases like this have quotes locally, but i got some mail from a friend with a period in it and repl choked as above. anyone else have this problem? is it a failure to conform to the RFC? these are the options i'm using currently (only difference is i tried to take out BERK and tried replacing BERK with DUMB, all with no good effect). in case it matters: SunOS 4.1 using shared libs on a SPARC. version: MH 6.7 #3[UCI] (anthrax) of Sat Sep 8 22:59:34 EDT 1990 options: [BSD42] [BSD43] [SUN40] [TYPESIG=void] [MHE] [BIND] [DBM] [NFS] [ZONEINFO] [MHRC] [WHATNOW] [OVERHEAD] [BERK] [SENDMTS] [SMTP] [BPOP] [NNTP] another thing: are there any patches i should apply to 6.7 since it came out? thanks for any help. v. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vick Khera Graduate Student Department of Computer Science ARPA: khera@cs.duke.edu Duke University UUCP: ..!{mcnc,decvax}!duke!khera Durham, NC 27706 (919) 660-6528