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From: barrett@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA (Alan P Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Commas
Keywords: Commas
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.090834.20423@Daisy.EE.UND.AC.ZA>
Date: 21 Jun 91 09:08:34 GMT
References: <811@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM>
Organization: Univ. Natal, Durban, S. Africa
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In article <811@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM>,
smitty@essnj1.ESSNJAY.COM (Hibbard T. Smith JR) writes:
> I'm using smail-3.1.19 and mush-7.2.3.  Whenever I try to mail
> something to multiple recipients, I get mail bounced by smail because
> the address ends up with an appended "," (comma).  I have tried mush
> both with and without "NO_COMMAS" set during the build.  The mush
> documentation implies that smail 3 ought to handle it either way.  I'm
> reallly confused, cause I'm not sure who's adding the commas.

Commas in the headers are fine, but smail3.1 quite correctly complains
about commas in the envelope addresses.  Mush stupidly puts commas in
the envelope addresses unless you compile it with the NO_COMMAS option.

--apb
Alan Barrett, Dept. of Electronic Eng., Univ. of Natal, Durban, South Africa
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