Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!wynnds.xenitec.on.ca!timk
From: timk@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca (Tim Kuehn)
Subject: Re: smail 2.5 problem
Organization: TDK Consulting Services
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 23:16:29 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.231629.518@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca>
References: <1991Apr7.190656.3989@wynnds.xenitec.on.ca> <1991Apr09.151840.23459@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>

In article <1991Apr09.151840.23459@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA> barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P. Barrett) writes:
>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.

I wish that was it. In the above example I was mailing to one 
address "kriss@uwslh.slh.wisc.edu", with no other addresses 
tacked on.

>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.

Sounds like a decent idea. I think I've solved the problem (at least, 
I haven't gotten any bounced message recently) by ripping out all of 
smail and mush, rm'ing all the mail-related stuff, re-installing the 
original Xenix mail and execmail prog's, then re-installing smail. 
Iterated on said procedure 5 times, and eventually everything 
came together.:-) /2

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