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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Prompting users for "Cc:" in Mail after message composed is confusing
Message-ID: <1990Nov30.060336.1136@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 90 06:03:36 GMT
References: <4450@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Nov19.205345.18063@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1990Nov30.030735.19269@engin.umich.edu>
Organization: Northern Illinois University
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In article <1990Nov30.030735.19269@engin.umich.edu> paul@caen.engin.umich.edu (Paul Killey) writes:
>
>with apollos, we count on a registry "feature" such that getpwnam(".")
>returns the entry for root instead of NULL, so all mail sent to dot
>goes to root.  No bounce problems.  Additionally, askcc has the effect
>of deletecc in apollo pads, and the bounce problem is thereby avoided.
>

 Some time ago I got tired of seeing bounced mail because users tried

  mail user -s "subject"

Since ucb Mail sorts the addresses before calling sendmail, the '-s' was
treated as a flag to sendmail which caused it to drop suid privileges.

I just defined an alias for '-s' in /lib/Mail.rc, aliasing it to /dev/null
and the problem went away.  But it would be nice if the sorting were done
in reverse order, so that sendmail doesn't see spurious flags.

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
  DeKalb, IL 60115.                                  +1-815-753-6940