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From: maechler@CRYPTO.BELLCORE.COM (Martin Maechler)
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Subject: mail-send  bug (?): garbled "To:" gives no warning -- never gets thru
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Date: 5 Jun 91 22:25:00 GMT
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(In Emacs 18.57, SPARCstation 1+, SunOS 4.1.1)
By accident, I had 
	-------------------
	mTo: <legal address>
instead of
	To: <legal address>

No piece of software ever complained, but the mail was never delivered.
I only was able to find out, because the mail was still FCC: into my
"outbox" file.

Wouldn't it be easy for mail-send to make sure that mail is really going out?
(And then, some mailer deamons are still responsible for mail with wrong
addresses !)

One way may be also to "regexp" check the mail header.
Who does the patch ?

Martin Maechler, Bellcore 2M-343, 445 South St., Morristown, NJ 07962-1910, USA
maechler@bellcore.com, Tel: (201) 829-4837(w)  933-0944(h), Fax (201) 538-9093.