Bug in Mail (4.2bsd ucb/Mail)

[guy at sun.UUCP]

> Does anyone know off-hand the fix to a bug in replying to mail
> which causes a repeated reply address, for example:
> 
> [this is on a SUN running 3.0 but I've seen it on our vanilla 4.2bsd VAX
> also]

I tend to doubt that you've seen it on a vanilla 4.2BSD VAX; you sure won't
see it on a vanilla 4.3BSD VAX - what you see there is

	To: bu-cs.bu:ab at edu bu-cs.bu:alpert at edu bu-cs.bu:karenl at edu
	    bu-cs.bu:veress at edu homer at bu-cs.bu.edu
	Subject: Re:  changes

which still isn't what you want (4.3BSD "Mail" seems still to believe in the
existence of Berknet, so it gets confused about "."  in domain names).

The bug in question is in some code in "mailx" - the Sun 3.0 "Mail" is
derived from "mailx".  "mailx" is a hacked-up version of the 4.1BSD "Mail",
with a bunch of new stuff added (one such addition caused the bug you saw);
we put all the changes between 4.1BSD "Mail" and 4.2BSD "Mail" that applied
to "mailx" into it to make the Sun 3.0 "Mail".

A bug fix to "mailx" has been posted to "net.bugs.usg".
-- 
	Guy Harris
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