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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,comp.sources.wanted,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail User's Shell (MUSH) and/or SMAIL bug
Message-ID: <6807@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 17 Dec 87 04:11:00 GMT
References: <1903@celtics.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.sources.bugs
Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <1903@celtics.UUCP> by roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger B.A. Klorese):
+---------------
| Have there been any fixes posted to the Mail User's Shell?  The bug which is
| biting me is a bug in alias expansion wherein addresses are separated by commas
| in the return address.  Smail, in turn, sees the comma as part of the address
| and gets quite confused.
+---------------

This is a bug in Smail; RFC822 states that ',' is the separator between
addresses, spaces are basically ignored in RFC822 addresses.  Of course,
standard /bin/mail (all systems) is also broken in this way; it may be
/bin/mail rather than Smail which is causing your problems.
-- 
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