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Subject: Re: another bug fix to 1.94 majordomo.pl
From: Walt Haas <haas @ xmission . com>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:38:26 -0700
To: Dave Wolfe <david_wolfe @ risc . sps . mot . com>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com, tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 19 Nov 1996 07:55:02 CST." <199611191355.HAA13172@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com>

Dave Wolfe <dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com> wrote:

> [ Walt Haas writes: ]
> > 
> > OK, great, but *WHY* are we worrying about trapping this one particular
> > kind of address?
> 
> Good question. I'm not enough of a sendmail guru to give you specifics,
> but sendmail isn't the only MTA possible and not all MTAs are created
> equal. Sendmail will gladly deliver to a file path, although there are
> usually other safeguards to plug such holes.

To: haas@xmission.com
Subject: send failed on enclosed draft

  /export/home/haas/testmail: loses; [USER] 550 </export/home/haas/testmail>... 
Cannot mail directly to files
post: 1 addressee undeliverable

Message not delivered to anyone.

------- Unsent Draft

To: /export/home/haas/testmail
cc:
Subject: see if this gets stored
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"Change is necessary.  Change is good."  - Lonnie Burton
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