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:
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>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.
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