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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Multiple recipient arguments to rmail
Message-ID: <3345@cbosgd.ATT.COM>
Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 00:48:42 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3345
Posted: Tue Feb 10 00:48:42 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 05:32:59 EST
References: <136@lmi-angel.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Medical Information Systems, Columbus
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Keywords: rmail, sendmail

In article <136@lmi-angel.UUCP> rpk@lmi-angel.UUCP (Bob Krajewski) writes:
>The rmail used for UUCP mail seems to want the same arguments as the
>standard mail program, which most importantly means a list of addresses to
>send to and not just one.  Our 4.2 sendmail thinks that rmail can take just
>one address at a time (in the mailer definition uucpm).  Is this an
>oversight or are there other rmails out there which only take one address ?

The 4.1BSD rmail took only one argument, and it's my fault.  When I
originally wrote rmail.c, I was being a defensive programmer, and I
put in a usage check to make sure there was exactly one argument.
I didn't realize that multiple arguments were possible.

This was fixed in 4.2BSD, and there aren't many places out there
running 4.1 anymore.  As far as I know, 4.1 is the only major
distribution with this bug.  When 4.2 was released, there were
lots of 4.1 sites to worry about.  There aren't many any more.

	Mark