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From: Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Bug (feature?) in smail 2.3
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Date: Tue, 26-May-87 08:26:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 08:26:47 1987
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In-reply-to: blm@cxsea.UUCP's message of 24 May 87 19:26:20 GMT
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.44.1 of Mon May 18 1987 on cbstr1 (usg-unix-v)

blm@cxsea.UUCP writes:

   I recently brought up smail 2.3 on a System V machine without
   sendmail.  It works quite nicely, except for one little problem.
   Basically, smail appears not to look up the path when only '!'s are
   used.  So a path like user@machine would make it down to getpath and
   have the cost filled in from the path file, but something like
   machine!user wouldn't.

That's supposed to be a feature.  I haven't decided whether it's
actually a bug or not myself.  The idea is that, if somebody is going
to the trouble to hand smail a real, live UUCP path, then smail isn't
going to mess with it.

I just looked at smail.8, and found a small reference to this in the
section titled "Addresses," on page 2.

Karl