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From: dalton@gladys.UUCP (David Dalton)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Bugs in email for Unix PC
Message-ID: <166@gladys.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 00:55:34 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 00:55:34 1986
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I think I have identified some bugs in the email program for the AT&T
7300. (Email is the windowed program that costs extra, not /usr/bin/mail,
or mailx, which is available free from The Store).

-- If an L.sys entry is too long, mail sent to any remote system will fail.
   Apparently email cannot handle an L.sys line longer than 100 characters.
   Any characters over 100 are somehow passed to the rmail command which
   is transmitted to the receiving computer.

-- A long pathname in the To: field will choke email. The limit appears to
   be 30 or 32 characters, even though the To: field allows about 40 characters.

-- Email does not check for a "Forward to username" comment in the 
   /usr/mail/username file. It appends new mail to the file anyway, and 
   nothing is forwarded. If a user who has a forward entry in his /usr/mail
   file invokes email, the forward entry is wiped out.

David Dalton [ihnp4!burl!gladys!dalton]