bugs in /bin/mail

scott at cdp.UUCP scott at cdp.UUCP
Tue Oct 14 04:40:00 AEST 1986


How can you send binaries in mail.  What happens if the string
"\nFrom" appears in te binary?  Shouldn't the user agent or
delivery system or someone be inserting a '>' before the From?
Won't this screw up the binary; or, if you don't insert the
'>', won't that screw up the user agent mail parser?

-scott
{ihnp4,...}!hplabs!cdp!scott



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