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Re: mush adding commas to addresses

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From: Dan Heller
Date: Sun, 21 May 1989 04:27
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In article <39@mondo.omni.com> bob@omni.com (Bob Weissman) writes:
> mush seems to insist on adding commas to the end of addresses, so the
> receiving end sees bogus addresses.

some general info:
RFC822 requires using commas between addresses so as to identify them
from other addresses.  However, some MTAs such as /bin/mail and other
older sys-v and xenix mailers don't like commas between addresses.
As a result you should define NO_COMMAS in your config.h file.

In this case, your system is a sun so I can't figure why you're having
a problem unless you are not using sendmail -- perhaps you're using an
OLD version of smail before it became rfc-compatible?

> I.e., I get back messages of the form
> 	"joe," -- no such address
> Has anyone else seen this problem?  If so, what do I do to fix it?
I've seen this problem whenever someone is using a non-rfc compatible
MTA such as smail 2.0 (or pre-3.0?).

If your system is running sendmail, then you have another problem and
I'd need more info (but I doubt this to be the case).
Dan Heller	<island!argv@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: mush adding commas to addresses
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