bin/131861: /usr/bin/mail misses addresses when replying to all

Pete French petefrench at ticketswitch.com
Wed Feb 18 15:10:02 PST 2009


>Number:         131861
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       /usr/bin/mail misses addresses when replying to all
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Feb 18 23:10:01 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Pete French
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD dilbert.rattatosk 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 5 13:02:14 GMT 2009 petefrench at constantine.rattatosk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64


>Description:

The 'R' command is supposed to reply to all recipients, but it
gets confused when the mail header does not have a space after the
comma separating the names. For example a mail like this:

	From: "Matthew Taylor" <Matt at seatem.com>
	To: "David Gilbert" <davidgilbert at ticketswitch.com>,"Pete French" <petefrench at ticketswitch.com>,"Peter Robinson" <peterrobinson at ticketswitch.com>
	CC: "Chris Martini" <chrismartini at ticketswitch.com>,"Jason McLaughlin" <jasonmclaughlin at ticketswitch.com>

when I hit 'R' only goes to addresses like this:

	To: peterrobinson at ticketswitch.com Matt at seatem.com
	Cc: jasonmclaughlin at ticketswitch.com

If, however, I edit the original to include spaces, so it looks like this:

	From: "Matthew Taylor" <Matt at seatem.com>
	To: "David Gilbert" <davidgilbert at ticketswitch.com>, "Pete French" <petefrench at ticketswitch.com>, "Peter Robinson" <peterrobinson at ticketswitch.com>
	CC: "Chris Martini" <chrismartini at ticketswitch.com>, "Jason McLaughlin" <jasonmclaughlin at ticketswitch.com>

Then reply now works properly, like this...

	To: davidgilbert at ticketswitch.com peterrobinson at ticketswitch.com Matt at seatem.com
	Cc: chrismartini at ticketswitch.com jasonmclaughlin at ticketswitch.com

The mails with ," instead of , " appear to be generated by Microsoft
email software, and I have not checked to see if they are RFC compliant. But
they are out there live, and are the cause of much annoyance when replying
to mail.

>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
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