Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.mail,net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters Message-ID: <5893@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 14:34:58 EDT Article-I.D.: utzoo.5893 Posted: Wed Aug 21 14:34:58 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Aug-85 14:34:58 EDT References: <1391@cbosgd.UUCP> <2637@sun.uucp>, <1043@sdcsvax.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 17 > > [...put all the info in the file, not in argv...] > > This won't always work. Suppose you've got a message > To: ihnp4!cbosgd!bill, decvax!decwrl!june, sdcsvax!sdcc3!george, > ucbvax!ucbfunky!ellen > > When ihnp4 gets this message, what should it conclude? That it should > only try to deliver the copy to "ihnp4..."? Even if it has > direct paths to sdcsvax and ucbvax? Or should it just try to deliver > to everyone? The answer is, it should be looking somewhere else than the RFC822 To: line to decide who it should deliver to. The idea will work fine, if you don't insist on force-fitting RFC822 onto it. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry