Re: mail problem

From: Ross Alexander (ralexan9_at_TELUSPLANET.NET)
Date: 07/02/03

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    Date:         Wed, 2 Jul 2003 13:10:34 -0600
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    On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Bill Thompson wrote:

    > Barry,
    >
    > I'm sorry if you were offended by my responce however there is no excuse
    > for not testing this. You don't need to know anything about "augusta
    > china@test.com", just make up an address. I tested both of these solutions
    > in about 30 seconds...
    >
    > >mail -s "test" "dummy bill.thompson"@goodyear.com </etc/group
    > dummy... User unknown
    > /root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter
    >
    > mail -s "test" "<dummy a327589@goodyear.com>" </etc/group
    > <dummy... There is a missing '<' character
    > <dummy... User unknown
    > bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
    > <dummy, bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '<' character
    > bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
    > <dummy, bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '<' character
    > <dummy... There is a missing '<' character
    > bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
    > bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
    > /root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter
    > <dummy, bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '<' character
    > bill.thompson@goodyear.com>... There is a missing '>' character.
    >
    >
    > As you can see the results are very valid. Neither works!

    Sorry about that - I was at home and nowhere near an AIX box; tried it
    on a FreeBSD 4.7 platform, where it works just fine thanks:

        augly:/u0/home/rwa > mail -s "test" "<dummy rwa>" < /etc/group
        augly:/u0/home/rwa > <dummy rwa>... User unknown
        /u0/home/rwa/dead.letter... Saved message in /u0/home/rwa/dead.letter

    Of course, my error was parsing it as a sendmail question rather than
    an AIX question, coupled with a naive faith in standards as written;
    c.f. RFC2822 section A.5. AIX clearly isn't *nix in this particular
    context, and it was foolish of me to generalize.

    regards,
    Ross 

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