Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen From: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: I hate smail + why it is doomed to be wrong. Message-ID: <140@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 22:48:32 EST Article-I.D.: dcl-csva.140 Posted: Thu Jan 8 22:48:32 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 01:43:25 EST References: <284@einode.UUCP> Reply-To: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir) Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK. Lines: 14 In article <284@einode.UUCP> simon@einode.UUCP (Simon Kenyon) writes: >using smail just to route uucp mail seems like an interesting thing to do. >i'm going to try that; and remove all my domain routing crap out of my A mail user interface should *never* try to interpret the contents of any header fields. smail breaks this golden rule. In particular, it should not try to do any routing either. Leave this all up to the mail delivery system. **** IF YOU TRY TO BE SMART, YOU WILL GET IT WRONG **** -- EMAIL: stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk | Post: University of Lancaster, UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4120 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR