Avoiding expansion of mail's metacharacters

[L.M.McLoughlin]

Sorry I missed the start of all this.  I've been try for some time to
generate enthusiasm in the UK for an rmail alternative: jmail.

Jmail is based on the mechanism used by the main UK academic network.
The actual lump of text transfered is broken up into two parts:
1) the list of addresses to send the message to.
   the addresses are comma seperated and the list is terminated by an
   empty line
2) the rfc822 message.

For example:
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"[3120,4044]"@edxa.ac.uk,
lee at kcl-cs.UUCP,
lmjm at doc.ic.ac.uk

Date: 02 Sep 85 9:15:29 BST
From: lmcl at ukc.ac.uk
To: the great one <lee at kcl-cs.UUCP>,
    a greater one <lmjm at doc.ic.ac.uk>,
    "[3120,4044]"@edxa.ac.uk,
    myself <lmcl at ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: Self Praise

Boy I am wonderfull.
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When a site receives this uux does (effectively) "jmail < message".
Jmail will then read the destination addresses, leap up and down on the
headers and send the message off.

For two cooperating sites to change over to using jmail instead of rmail
should not be too difficult.  It means changing all programs that invoke uux
to send mail so that when sending to a site that has jmail, that is used rather
than rmail.