Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site l5.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!sun!l5!gnu From: gnu@l5.uucp (John Gilmore) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.mail,net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters (UK's jmail) Message-ID: <84@l5.uucp> Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 13:47:12 EDT Article-I.D.: l5.84 Posted: Mon Sep 9 13:47:12 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Sep-85 07:48:01 EDT References: <1391@cbosgd.UUCP> <2637@sun.uucp> <1043@sdcsvax.UUCP> <215@ukc.UUCP> Organization: Ell-Five [Consultants], San Francisco Lines: 19 Xref: watmath net.unix-wizards:14787 net.mail:1136 net.bugs.uucp:583 In article <215@ukc.UUCP>, lmcl@ukc.UUCP (L.M.McLoughlin) writes: > 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 etc... Can you leave out the extraneous commas? Just one address per line with no extra characters or delimiters or quotes or modes or whatever would be true and utter simplicity...