Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +MMDF+2.11; site ukc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!lmcl From: lmcl@ukc.UUCP (L.M.McLoughlin) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.mail,net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters Message-ID: <215@ukc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 2-Sep-85 10:15:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ukc.215 Posted: Mon Sep 2 10:15:05 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 4-Sep-85 06:51:32 EDT References: <1391@cbosgd.UUCP> <2637@sun.uucp> <1043@sdcsvax.UUCP> <5893@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: lmcl@eagle.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin) Organization: U of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, UK Lines: 35 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:14690 net.mail:1104 net.bugs.uucp:582 Sorry I missed the start of all this. I've been try for some time to generate enthusiasm in the UK for an rmail alternative: jmail. Jmail is based on the mechanism used by the main UK academic network. The actual lump of text transfered is broken up into two parts: 1) the list of addresses to send the message to. the addresses are comma seperated and the list is terminated by an empty line 2) the rfc822 message. For example: --------------------------------------------------------------- "[3120,4044]"@edxa.ac.uk, lee@kcl-cs.UUCP, lmjm@doc.ic.ac.uk Date: 02 Sep 85 9:15:29 BST From: lmcl@ukc.ac.uk To: the great one , a greater one , "[3120,4044]"@edxa.ac.uk, myself Subject: Self Praise Boy I am wonderfull. --------------------------------------------------------------- When a site receives this uux does (effectively) "jmail < message". Jmail will then read the destination addresses, leap up and down on the headers and send the message off. For two cooperating sites to change over to using jmail instead of rmail should not be too difficult. It means changing all programs that invoke uux to send mail so that when sending to a site that has jmail, that is used rather than rmail.