Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cdaf
From: cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: mail problems, mailx query  ( SR 9.7 )
Message-ID: <19647@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 89 08:21:01 GMT
Reply-To: cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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I seem to be having some bizarre (but disparate) problems with /usr/ucb/mail
on my Apollo.  Here they are:

1)  (This may actually be a uucp problem)  When I receive multiple
large shar files during the same session, they often get munged
together in no particular order by the time they make into the
mbox.  If I grab them out of /usr/spool/uucp/D./*, they are in perfectly
good shape.  Once uux kicks in, they get munged.  Symptoms:  Varies from
subsequent messages overwriting just a small part of the end of the provious
message.  This happens when the mail messages are larger than about 28K.
Other times, the messages just get trashed together, what seems to be
bits and pieces all over the place.

2)  When replying to a message with `r', and  that message has headers
in the form of
	
	From: User One <iuvax!silver.bacs.indiana.edu!u1>
	To: cdaf
	Subject: whatever....
	Cc: silver.bacs.indiana.edu!u2
	
Upon hitting 'r', the new header becomes:

	To: iuvax!silver.indiana:edu!cdaf iuvax!silver.bacs.indiana.edu!u1
	Subject: Re:   whatever....
	Cc: iuvax!silver.indiana:edu!silver.indiana:edu!u2

(if there are more than 2 addresses, the others also get trans-munged
like the second address here.   Sendmail has nothing to do with this.)

Note that a) the 'cdaf' in the To: line gets a nice long path to nowhere
added to it;  b)  The domain addresses have the 'bacs' slashed out of them,
the .edu becomes a :edu, and the first sender's address is always ok,
(but also happens to be the only address which is OK.  *groan*.


3)  Any fixes?  SR 10.x is not an option, as I'm running on a DN550, as
I've heard that SR 10.x runs at "glacial" speeds on these, among other
things.  Maybe HP/UX ?  ;-)

4)  Does anyone have mailx running on their Apollos under 9.7?  
If it runs on Apollos (and someone has a port for it) I'd like to
know from where I can FTP it.  


Thanks.

-charles
-- 
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