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From: hanst@htsa.uucp (Hans Trompert)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd,comp.mail.headers,comp.sys.sequent,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: BSD 4.2 Mail not RFC822-compliant?
Summary: Solving RFC822 headers with RSMTP
Keywords: bsd mail rfc822
Message-ID: <668@htsa.uucp>
Date: 15 Dec 88 10:24:41 GMT
References: <555@unocss.UUCP>
Organization: AHA-TMF (Technical Institute), Amsterdam, Netherlands
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In article <555@unocss.UUCP>, fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell) writes:
> Hi all,
> 
>     I recently acquired the MM mailer that Columbia has ported to Unix
> (it's in beta-test), and discovered a bug, for lack of a better word,
> in the Berkeley mail program.
> 
>     First off, let me set things up: this is on a Sequent Balance 8000,
> running Dynix 2.1.1 (BSD 4.2 and System V.2 together).  I've also tried
> this on a Vax 8200 running Ultrix 2.3.

Greetings,
We too have a Sequent Balance 8000, and we are running Dynix V3.0.4.
We have never used the original mail, because we were told there are many
problems using RFC822 mail headers. So we use RSMTP instead (originally
written by Jack Jansen CWI Amsterdam Netherlands, uunet!mcvax!piring!jack or
jack@cwi.nl). RSMTP (Realy Simple Mail Transfer Program) 
pretends to understand internet addresses, but what it
does is just converting these addresses to uucp-like addresses: jack@cwi.nl
becomes cwi.nl!jack. Installing RSMTP is rather straight forward, a manual
is included, but you can also ofcourse examine the sources. For those who
are interested we are willing to post those sources.


Hans Trompert HTS "A" Amsterdam Netherlands
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