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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: UCB Mail tries to be too smart
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Date: 20 Feb 89 14:33:16 GMT
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I strongly suggest that you -- anyone who wants control of how the Mail USer
Agent deals with things -- get ahold of a user agent with source code such
as ELM or GNU Emacs or something.  (I am not endorsing any of these... I use
MH... Oh!  Or MH. :-))

Then you can control what it does.  /usr/ucb/mail tries to be smart about
unknown hosts as well as tries to handle BerkNet formats in addresses, which
is also a mistake nowadays.  I think.

Fred