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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: smail 2.5 problem
Message-ID: <1991Apr09.151840.23459@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 9 Apr 91 15:18:40 GMT
References: <1991Apr7.190656.3989@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
Lines: 29

In article <1991Apr7.190656.3989@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca>,
timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn) writes:
> I've recently compiled smail 2.5 under SCO Xenix 2.3.2, and have been 
> getting the darndest -intermittent- problem I've ever seen. Here's 
> a sample from the /tmp/mail.log file: 
> 
> Apr  6 23:31: /usr/bin/uux -atimk -r - xenitec!rmail \
>	'(xenitec.on.ca!uwslh.slh.wisc.edu,!kriss)', from timk, 2494 bytes
> 
> Where's the "," between the machine "!" path and the username 
> coming from?

Probably from outside smail.  If you send a message addressed like this:

	To:  user@some.dom.ain, another@some.where.else

then your user agent may be passing the comma to smail in the envelope
addresses (I know mailx on my system has this problem).  Smail does
nothing special to get rid of such a comma, but perhaps your previous
(non-smail) MTA did get rid of it.

The fix may be as simple as omitting the commas when you type the
addresses in the To:  line.  Smail will insert commas in the header if
your user agent doesn't, but you don't want commas in the envelope
addresses.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
Internet: barrett@ee.und.ac.za           UUCP: m2xenix!quagga!undeed!barrett