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   1 11/14/79
   2         If .mh_profile contains an entry like "show: -pr -a -b -c" and you
   3         call "show" with the explicit switch -nopr, then you have those
   4         dangling -a -b -c switches that were intended for pr.
   5         (Bound the switch list for pr, etc., with a semi-colon?)
   6
   7 2/1/80
   8         "file +junk" makes junk a folder, while "file +.junk" makes ".junk"
   9         a subfolder. "file" should test for pathname beginning with "./"
  10         instead of just '.'
  11
  12 9/15/80
  13         When repl gets an adrparse error, it should return to
  14         "What now?" instead of aborting. (But see objections in
  15         /r/phyl/Mail/MH/16)
  16
  17         The same goes for comp, dist, forw
  18
  19 9/29/80
  20         When send is invoked with no args, and the draft already
  21         exists, options to "use draft?" should include "list" along with
  22         yes/no
  23
  24 10/21/80
  25         Tabs in address lists aren't recognized.
  26
  27 12/23/80
  28         Fix and install "dist"
  29
  30 1/14/81
  31         inc -nochangecur displays that the first-inc'ed message is the current
  32         message, and it's not.  It should also do a scan from cur, I think.
  33         (I fixed the 1st bug, but not the scan from cur.   /phyl 7/9/81)
  34
  35 5/28/81
  36         'news' will break when there are multiple news folders in the 'To:'
  37         field(s)!
  38
  39
  40 7/7/81 phyl
  41         Re:Log:"3/23/81 jdg/day: changed deliver.c to check for effective
  42         uid and gid while it is preventing forgery of mail.  Needed for
  43         uucp, when uucico is invoked by a real person instead of uucp
  44         itself."
  45
  46         The real fix should be to check for real uid==0 (srvrftp) or real
  47         gid==daemon (any uu program) or effective gid==daemon (human
  48         running uucico, and uucico should be SGID daemon).
  49
  50 2/16/81
  51         /usr/tmp/mh files are readable by the world.
  52         So are /usr/spool/uucp files.
  53
  54 2/21/81
  55         A message should not have to exist for you to be able to use
  56         its number in a range, as in 'scan cur-last' when cur does
  57         not exist.
  58
  59 2/28/81
  60         "This RAND-UNIX stuff (adding and removing them from message
  61         headers on the vax) is a crock.  Reply strips 'RAND-UNIX' off of
  62         addresses, but not 'rand-unix'.  If I type it up myself, deliver
  63         rejects either of them."  --guyton
  64
  65
  66 4/4/81
  67         "The delivery program should not leave headers that the mailer doesn't
  68         understand.  Replying to the following header was painful: " --jim
  69
  70         (Message inbox:1)
  71         From: graphics!root
  72         Date:  4 Apr 1981 at 2138-PST
  73         To: Vax!mh-discussion at RAND-UNIX
  74         Cc: greep at SU-ISL
  75         Subject: Mail to terminals
  76         From: greep at SU-ISL
  77
  78
  79         ...AND LOTS OF OTHER MESSAGE HEADER OBJECTIONS
  80
  81 4/7/81
  82         scan and inc should check ALIASES and recognize UUCP localhost!me
  83         when deciding whether or not the message is from me.
  84
  85 4/16/81
  86         Deliver should run one uux per site instead of one per addressee.
  87
  88 6/2/81
  89         "rmf" should automatically remove .e* files from the named folder.
  90
  91 7/81
  92         deliver fails to recognize "at" when it is preceded by
  93              more than one blank.
  94
  95         repl tries to parse a Sender [or From] field, and a To
  96              field, without first testing for their existence.
  97
  98         file protections on rmail/uucico are inconsistent with
  99              deliver's internal user/group tests.
 100
 101         deliver fails to recognize that localhost!user is indeed user.
 102              (Should it?)
 103
 104         temporary mail files stay around when the "no such local user"
 105              error occurs--because of a spurious flag test.
 106
 107         deliver should parenthesize (user at host) as well as (host!user)
 108              when constructing the uux command.
 109
 110         rmail should direct stderr to a file before invoking deliver.
 111
 112         rmail should check for unknown local user and send return mail to the
 113              originator. (Can't fix unless no intervening Arpanet addresses.)
 114
 115         rmail should add a Date: component if there is none.
 116
 117         mail headers should be reordered.
 118
 119 7/23/81
 120         "mail" should be in /bin, not in /usr/randbin. (?)
 121
 122 8/17/81
 123         "rmf" should verify that the requested folder is not the current
 124         directory.
 125
 126 8/20/81
 127         /usr/tmp/mh and /usr/MailAliases should be defined in strings.a
 128
 129 9/1/81
 130         repl should remove leading blanks from date and subject fields
 131         before putting them in the new in-reply-to and subject fields.
 132         (Greep)
 133
 134 9/9/81
 135         Adrparse should recognize the full RFC733 syntax; viz, colon
 136         as part of the address list.
 137
 138 10/2/81
 139         Subject: news bug
 140         From: phyl at RAND-UNIX
 141
 142         The table of news topics overflowed.
 143
 144         news.c counts all non-dot files in the directory /usr/news to
 145         determine the number of news topics.  But mail sent to an UNKNOWN
 146         news topic remains in the top level news directory, erroneously
 147         getting counted into the total.  Either .mh-receive should stow
 148         undeliverable news into another directory, or news.c should count
 149         only directory entries.
 150
 151 10/6/81
 152         mhl should know about termcap
 153
 154 10/14/81
 155         Subject: Mail to "everyone"
 156         From: obrien at RAND-UNIX
 157
 158                 An insoluble problem: sending mail to "everyone" (a risky
 159         business at best) generates mail to every line in /etc/passwd,
 160         including those like "uucp", "unix32v", and such which aren't real
 161         people.  An exception list is no help because it gets out of date.
 162         Only cure I know of is to go through /usr/spool/mail every now and
 163         again and get rid of phony files.
 164
 165 11/10/81
 166         Subject: HOSTNUM not necessary
 167         From: greep at SU-DSN
 168
 169         Mh deliver should really not need HOSTNUM (this is in
 170          /usr/include/whoami.h) - it can get the number by searching for
 171          HOSTNAME in the host table.
 172
 173 11/18/81
 174         SUBJECT: folder with a -fast flag doesn't change current folder
 175         From: norm at RAND-UNIX
 176
 177 11/81
 178         Message lists should not be reordered.  (Norm, Phyl)
 179
 180 12/17/81
 181         The alias function doesn't work when a single message contains
 182         multiple instances of the address form "foo.*"--ergo, a message
 183         cannot be sent to more than one news group.
 184
 185         Note that /usr/news/.mh_receive won't recognize multiple news
 186         groups in a single message either!
 187
 188 12/19/81
 189         If a message is addressed to more than one local alias-group,
 190         people who are in more than one of the groups receive multiple
 191         copies of the message. (I think! --phyl--)
 192
 193 1/5/82
 194         If you send a message to a bad uucp host name, it a) gives you
 195         an error message, b) queues the mail anyway, and c) deletes the
 196         draft because the mail was "correctly sent".  Ha!
 197         It should a) give you an error message and b) punt.
 198                         --Michael W.--
 199
 200 1/19/82
 201
 202         MH argument parsing should be upgraded to allow
 203         folder arguments to have a space between the +
 204         and the folder name so you can use shell matching
 205         syntax.  Example:
 206
 207            % folder + /usr/news/net-g*
 208            % cd !$
 209
 210         --dave
 211
 212 3/11/82
 213         deliver should clean up before exiting.