Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters

[Henry Spencer]

> > [...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