mailx <-> smail incompatibilities

[Tony Walton]

In article <621 at clinet.FI>, tot at clinet.FI (Teemu Torma) writes:
> In article <1510 at bigtex.uucp> james at bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen) writes:
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> >BTW: If you try to use smail with SysVr3 mailx, it won't work, because the
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> Add `set noaddsopt' to mailx startup file for SVR3 mailx (mailx 3.0).

We're using smail2.5 and SVR3.1, without 'set noaddsopt' in a mailx
startup file.  I have noticed a problem with the mailx on a 3B15 running
SVR2.1, in that the mailx won't allow addresses like tony.walton at foo.bar -
it just throws it out as an illegal (or unknown) address. mailx under SVR3.1
doesn't throw such addresses out, it passes the fullname to smail as it should.

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Tony Walton, OEM/VAR Division, British Olivetti Ltd., Wellington House,
154-160 Upper Richmond Road, London, England SW15 2FN
LONDON, SW15 2FN.  Tel: (+44) 1 789 6699 Telefax: (+44) 1 785 6670 Telex:27258
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