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- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQS);faqs.254
-
-
-
- ! GB02 All programs need to use the same algorithm elm(1) and
- ! frm(1) use in establishing the user's id and the user's in-
- ! coming mailbox.
-
- - GB10 [next item goes here]
-
- ! 2. Elm(1) bugs
-
- - EB02 Encryption is not fully implemented in ELM. In elm(1) we
- - have the following problems:
-
- ! When `b' (bouncing) a message or `f' (forwarding) a message
- ! without editing, an encrypted section of text in the origi-
- ! nal message wrongly gets encrypted a second time. The func-
- ! tion that looks for encryption delimiters needs to know to
- ! ignore them in these situations.
-
- - When `p' (printing) or `|' (piping) a message, an encrypted
- - message does not get decrypted. This is because elm(1) in-
- - vokes readmsg(1) to pull the message out of the folder and
- - readmsg(1) does not deal with encryption at all. Even if we
- - gave readmsg(1) the ability to decrypt messages, we'd still
- - have problems because readmsg itself would have to prompt
- - for the decryption key. Now if we were printing or piping a
- - set of tagged messages, readmsg(1) would have to prompt for
- - decryption keys for each message individually. In doing
- - that readmsg(1) would have to indicate which message of the
- - set it was working on. This would be difficult since
- - readmsg(1) uses actual ordinal message position in the fold-
- - er, and that would be confusing if the user has folders
- - sorted in other than mailbox order: the message numbers
- - wouldn't match up. The solution therefore involves replac-
- - ing readmsg(1) with a new function in elm(1) to handle the
- - `p' or `|' commands, and this function would need to detect
- - the encryption delimiters and prompt for the decryption key.
- - Furthermore, readmsg(1) should get enhanced to deal with en-
- - crypted text, or else carry a disclaimer that it doesn't
- - work on encrypted text.
-
- - When including the text of an original message for a `r'
- - (reply) or `f' (forward), encrypted sections do not get de-
- - crypted first, resulting in decrypted text inside the in-
- - clude text. This means that the elm(1) function that in-
- - cludes text of an original message must detect encryption
- - delimiters and decrypt encrypted text before including it in
- - a reply or forwarded message.
-
- ! EB26 When using an address of the form "node!user@domain" and
- ! having Elm convert it to an all ! address, RFC976 states
- ! that the proper address should be domain!node!user, but Elm
- ! translates that to node!domain!user.
-
- - EB36 When Elm is configured not to look at the password file for
- - full name information, it sometimes places the user name in
- - ()s as the comment in addition to the full name.
-
- ! EB41 [next item goes here]
-
- ! 3. Utilities bugs
-
- ! UB02 Newmail(1) displays a null "From" when a message does not
- ! contain a From: header line. It needs to be able to parse
- ! the return path and display the "last two words" of it, just
- ! like elm(1) does when it encounters a message without a
- ! From:
-
- ! UB07 Arepdaemon has a bad security hole because it does not check
- ! to see if the user can read the file used for reply.
-
- ! UB09 Autoreply.c tries to unlink the file "/etc/autoreply.data"
- ! when there is only one entry in it and does not check the
- ! return value of unlink. This can have bad repercussions if
- ! the unlink fails because the program nevertheless reports
- ! success.
-
- ! UB13 If filter is run on a system that allows multiple delivery
- ! agents, that can start up multiple copies of filter,
- ! delivery of messages can get intermixed. Filter needs a
- ! complete interlocking to prevent this.
-
- ! UB14 [next item goes here]
-
-
-
- --- 260,501 ----
- change is to fix it, and what else it ties into in the 3.0 work).
- Items marked fixed will be deleted from the list on the next posting.
-
-
- ! Database last updated on Thursday 3-December-92 14:52:04 +0000 (GMT)
-
- ! General bugs and configuration bugs
- ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
- ! GB01 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: Configuration questions need rearranging
- ! Description:
- ! The ordering of some sets of configuration questions could be
- ! improved. In some cases, the answer to a later question
- ! renders an earlier question moot. In such cases, the latter
- ! should proceed the former so that the former would only be
- ! asked if need be. This occurs with many of the configuration
- ! questions that deal with the domain routing and pathalias
- ! databases, appending the hostname and internet address style,
- ! etc.
-
-
- ! GB02 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: User id & mailbox algorithm should be consistant.
- ! Description:
- ! All programs need to use the same algorithm elm(1) and frm(1)
- ! use in establishing the user's id and the user's incoming
- ! mailbox.
-
-
-
- ! Elm(1) bugs
- ! ~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-
- ! EB02 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: Encryption is not fully implemented in ELM.
- ! Description:
- ! In elm(1) we have the following problems:
-
- ! When `b' (bouncing) a message or `f' (forwarding) a message
- ! without editing, an encrypted section of text in the original
- ! message wrongly gets encrypted a second time. The function
- ! that looks for encryption delimiters needs to know to ignore
- ! them in these situations.
-
- ! When `p' (printing) or `|' (piping) a message, an encrypted
- ! message does not get decrypted. This is because elm(1) invokes
- ! readmsg(1) to pull the message out of the folder and
- ! readmsg(1) does not deal with encryption at all.
-
- ! Even if we gave readmsg(1) the ability to decrypt messages,
- ! we'd still have problems because readmsg itself would have to
- ! prompt for the decryption key.
-
- ! Now if we were printing or piping a set of tagged messages,
- ! readmsg(1) would have to prompt for decryption keys for each
- ! message individually. In doing that readmsg(1) would have to
- ! indicate which message of the set it was working on.
-
- ! This would be difficult since readmsg(1) uses actual ordinal
- ! message position in the folder, and that would be confusing if
- ! the user has folders sorted in other than mailbox order: the
- ! message numbers wouldn't match up. The solution therefore
- ! involves replacing readmsg(1) with a new function in elm(1) to
- ! handle the `p' or `|' commands, and this function would need
- ! to detect the encryption delimiters and prompt for the
- ! decryption key. Furthermore, readmsg(1) should get enhanced to
- ! deal with encrypted text, or else carry a disclaimer that it
- ! doesn't work on encrypted text.
-
- ! When including the text of an original message for a `r'
- ! (reply) or `f' (forward), encrypted sections do not get
- ! decrypted first, resulting in decrypted text inside the
- ! include text. This means that the elm(1) function that
- ! includes text of an original message must detect encryption
- ! delimiters and decrypt encrypted text before including it in a
- ! reply or forwarded message.
- !
- !
- ! EB26 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: Addresses "node!user@domain" not handled as RFC976
- ! Description:
- ! When using an address of the form "node!user@domain" and
- ! having Elm convert it to an all ! address, RFC976 states that
- ! the proper address should be domain!node!user, but Elm
- ! translates that to node!domain!user.
- !
- !
- ! EB36 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: Sometimes user name is added into full name field
- ! Description:
- ! When Elm is configured not to look at the password file for
- ! full name information, it sometimes places the user name in
- ! ()s as the comment in addition to the full name.
- !
- !
- ! EB41 Version: 2.3PL11 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 2-Dec-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: rp@mis29.cypress.com (Rob Price)
- ! Summary: Incoming mail incorrectly handled in subset mode.
- ! Description:
- ! If a subset of mail is displayed using the "l" command, new
- ! incoming mail is displayed with the subset mail. However the
- ! mail count at the top of the screen is not updated, and the
- ! final few items (ie those numerically after the number of
- ! messages shown) cannot be selected by the cursor keys.
- !
- !
- ! EB42 Version: 2.4PL3 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 2-Dec-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: moore@email.ncsc.navy.mil (Jim Moore)
- ! Summary: Builtin editor unable to delete back over line boundary.
- ! Description:
- ! The builtin editor is unable to delete back over a line
- ! boundary. Attempts to delete back over a line boundary can
- ! cause the whole message to be lost, and unpredictable effects
- ! to be seen on screen and possibly garbage characters in the
- ! file.
- !
- !
- ! EB43 Version: 2.4PL3 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 2-Dec-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: cytron@jimmy.harvard.edu (Andrew Cytron)
- ! Summary: Elm does not enforce newline at end of message.
- ! Description:
- ! Some MTAs (notably Sun sendmail) require that the message end
- ! in a newline character. Elm does not enforce this, which can
- ! result in the MTA failing or hanging.
- !
- !
- ! EB44 Version: 2.4PL6 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 2-Dec-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: marc@ibmpa.awdpa.ibm.com (Marc Pawliger)
- ! Summary: Builtin editor treats "/" as white space char.
- ! Description:
- ! The builtin editor treats "/" as a whitespace character and
- ! performs wordwrap (including deleting the "/") on things such
- ! as file names.
- !
- !
- ! EB45 Version: 2.4devPL65 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 2-Dec-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: jgreco@solaria.mil.wi.us (Joe Greco)
- ! Summary: Incoming messages can confuse the index screen display.
- ! Description:
- ! Elm can lose track of incoming (new) messages so that although
- ! the number of messages at the top of the screen is correct,
- ! the new messages are not displayed on the index page. However
- ! these messages can be accessed in the normal way, they just
- ! aren't listed in the index. Redrawing the screen restores
- ! things to normal.
- !
- !
- ! EB46 Version: 2.4PL13 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 2-Dec-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
- ! Summary: To: addresses split over lines can confuse group reply.
- ! Description:
- ! If an address in the To: part of a message is split over more
- ! than one line, a group reply to that message will incorectly
- ! parse the addresses and build an incorrect Cc: header.
- !
- ! The example given had the fullname part of an address in ()
- ! split onto a continuation line. In this case elm added 2
- ! additional addresses into the Cc: line - made up of the 2
- ! parts of the full name each with the original senders domain
- ! name suffixed on.
- !
- !
- ! EB47 Version: 2.4PL13 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 3-Dec-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: morwyn!forrie@unhtel.unh.edu (Forrest Aldrich)
- ! Summary: Only last line of each header can be edited
- ! Description:
- ! The header editor only allows the editing of the last screen
- ! line of a header. Backing up to previous lines is not
- ! possible.
- !
- !
- !
- ! Utilities bugs
- ! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- !
- !
- ! UB02 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: Newmail cannot handle null From: headers.
- ! Description:
- ! Newmail(1) displays a null "From" when a message does not
- ! contain a From: header line. It needs to be able to parse the
- ! return path and display the "last two words" of it, just like
- ! elm(1) does when it encounters a message without a From:
- !
- !
- ! UB07 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: Arepdaemon does not check user permissions.
- ! Description:
- ! Arepdaemon has a bad security hole because it does not check
- ! to see if the user can read the file used for reply.
- !
- !
- ! UB09 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: Arepdeamon does not check status when unlinking data file.
- ! Description:
- ! Autoreply.c tries to unlink the file "/etc/autoreply.data"
- ! when there is only one entry in it and does not check the
- ! return value of unlink. This can have bad repercussions if the
- ! unlink fails because the program nevertheless reports success.
- !
- !
- ! UB13 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- ! Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- ! Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- ! Summary: Filter has no locking against multiple instantiations.
- ! Description:
- ! If filter is run on a system that allows multiple delivery
- ! agents, that can start up multiple copies of filter, delivery
- ! of messages can get intermixed. Filter needs a complete
- ! interlocking to prevent this.
- !
- !
- ! -- end of elm bug database
-
-
-
- --
- ========================================================================
- Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.4PL17
- Datacomp Systems, Inc. Projected 3.0 Release: ??? ?,1994
- syd@DSI.COM or dsinc!syd Voice: (215) 947-9900, FAX: (215) 938-0235
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- From: syd@dsinc.DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,news.answers
- Subject: Monthly Elm Posting from the Elm Development Group
- Keywords: monthly elm posting
- Message-ID: <1gjdebINNohh@dsinc.dsi.com>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 01:46:51 GMT
- Expires: +1 month
- Sender: syd@dsi.com
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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- NNTP-Posting-Host: dsinc.dsi.com
-
- Archive-name: elm-monthly/part1
-
- This is the monthly Elm Posting from the Elm Development Group and
- your Elm Coordinator. Please send all questions and comments about
- this posting or Elm itself to elm@dsi.com (dsinc!elm). See the
- README section of this posting for info on some Elm 2.4 FAQ's.
- This posting generated:
- Mon Dec 14 20:46:08 EST 1992
-
- Current release version: Elm 2.4 PL17
- This version was released at patch level 0.
- comp.sources.unix Posting-number: (Not yet posted)
- Archive-name: (Not yet posted)
- Patches are posted to comp.sources.bugs and comp.mail.elm
- After they are stable, patches are sent to comp.sources.unix
- The following patch sets have been posted, 1/2, 3, 4/5,
- 6, 7/8, 9/10, 11, 12/13, 14-17.
- Archive-name: (No patches yet posted to comp.sources.unix)
- Patches are available from the archive server at DSI.COM:
- send mail to archive-server@DSI.COM
- send elm index
-
- Note: the archive server will not respond to users names root, daemon,
- postmaster or mailer-daemon. Please use your own login when requesting
- information from the archive server.
-
- Planned next version: Elm 3.0
- Current Elm 3.0 status: Development expected to start 1/1/93
- Expected release date: Sometime in 1994.
-
- As of release 2.1, Elm is now being developed by a cooperative venture
- of volunteers loosely being called the Elm Development Group. There are
- approximately 40 developers and an additional 16 testers, participating
- at various levels of activity.
-
- Comments, bug reports, feature requests, etc. should be sent to
- elm@DSI.COM. I try to ack most reports, but over 60% fail due to
- invalid addresses. Note, I strip your address to name@fqdn or name@site
- before replying.
-
- New releases will be posted to comp.sources.unix, patches will be posted
- to comp.sources.bugs. After patches have been proven and out for a
- while, they will be posted to comp.sources.unix. Patches are available
- from the archive server at DSI.COM. The complete release as of the
- current patch level is available via anonymous uucp from dsinc. Also
- available via anonymous uucp are postscript output files of the current
- documentation. This service is provided for those sites that have
- postscript but do not have di-troff. Instructions for obtaining files
- via anonymous uucp from dsinc are also available from the archive
- server. Elm is too large to mail, don't bother asking. Also don't
- mail me asking for me to send you patches, I won't. Use the archive
- server. The archive-server will not respond to users named root,
- daemon, or postmaster to prevent loops. Please do not use those names
- for archive requests. PLEASE do not send archive requests to elm@dsi.com.
-
- The following sites have agreed to make Elm available via anonymous ftp.
-
- Site Contact
- In the US/Canada:
- wuarchive.wustl.edu David J. Camp, david@wubios.WUstl.EDU
- (128.252.135.4)
-
- ftp.uu.net
- (137.39.1.9, 192.48.96.9)
-
- In Europe:
- ftp.cs.ruu.nl Edwin Kremer, edwin@cs.ruu.nl
- (131.211.80.17)
-
- In the UK:
- uk.ac.soton.ecs T.Chown@ecs.soton.ac.uk (bitnet)
- (152.78.64.201) T.Chown@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
-
- In Australia:
- ftp.adelaide.edu.au Mark Prior, mrp@itd.adelaide.edu.au
- (129.127.40.3)
-
- In Taiwan:
- NCTUCCCA.edu.tw Huang, Chih-Hsien hch@NCTUCCCA.edu.tw
- (140.111.3.21)
-
-
- The following sites have agreed to make Elm available via anonymous
- uucp:
- Site Contact
- uunet Elm is /networking/mail/elm
-
- dsinc Syd Weinstein
- syd@dsi.com, dsinc!syd
- note: anon uucp info changed 12/16/91
- For further info, send an e-mail
- message to archive-server@dsi.com stating:
- send anon how-to dir
-
-
- stanton Steven P. Donegan
- donegan@stanton.cts.com, stanton!donegan
- 714-894-2246 uucp - nuucp no word
- Elm is /u/public/elm2.3.tar.Z
-
-
- -----------------------------README SECTION-----------------------------
- First: See the README file that is part of the Elm Source Distribution.
- Many questions might be answered there.
-
- Where do I get the "Elm Reference Guide", "Elm Users Guide", ...
- Elm has several documents (over 100 pages worth of doc)
- that were written to help users install, support and use Elm.
- These are in the doc directory of the source distribution.
- Contact your systems administrator for a copy of the documents.
- For those sites that do not have troff (either di-troff or
- o-troff) and do have postscript printers, dsinc (dsinc.dsi.com)
- has a copy of the docs already in postscript format available
- for anonymous uucp or ftp.
-
- Why do I get the remote signature on replies to local mail? Can I
- define what addresses are local?
- In Elm 2.4, any address with an ! or @ in it is considered
- remote, without those characters, its local.
- Any reply is qualified to prevent alias expansion. If you had
- an alias in your private Elm aliases that matched the name of a
- user on your system, but that alias did not point to that user,
- there would be no way to reply to the message. It would end up
- going to the alias name, not the user that mailed you. To
- prevent this, Elm fully qualifies (adds the site name) to a
- reply address. This makes the simplistic signature detector
- think that the message is 'remote'. This is not slated to
- change until 3.0.
-
- Why Elm adds your local hosts qualification to reply addresses:
- (Or why the DANGER WILL ROBINSON KLUDGE is in the code)
- Elm passes any address off to the alias mapper to see if it
- needs expansion. If you are replying to a bare user name of
- abc, Elm converts it to abc@localhost.domain (assuming internet
- addressing, myhost!abc for the rest). This is to prevent the
- alias expansion. If you were to have, in you private Elm alias
- table an alias of abc that pointer to
- J.Q.Public@somewhere.domain, if the address wasn't qualified,
- Elm would convert the reply to abc to go to
- J.Q.Public@somewhere.domain. This is generally not what you
- want :-)
-
- If you can guarantee that no private alias will ever match a local user
- name on your system, then you can disable the kludge code. The kludge
- will have to remain until 3.0 when Elm will track whether an address
- has been/should be expanded, and its prior to and after expansion values.
- In 2.x it doesn't do that.
-
- How can I get elm to NOT expand the alias list on outgoing msgs?
- Problem is if a list has, say, 100 names in it then sending to the list
- expands every single one of the 100 names. I would like the message to
- have the "To" line = the name of the list itself and have the actual
- recipients' names not appear.
- You can't and don't want to. (and yet you can also) An alias is
- a mechanism of making Elm address a message to multiple
- people. However, when the message gets to its destination, Elm
- also has to allow that person do a group reply. If the message
- only has your local private elm alias in it, the group reply
- will try and go to that alias name. Unfortunately, that name
- is meaningless to that other person (its private to both Elm
- and you).
-
- There are two solutions:
-
- The preferred if replies are desired:
- Have your mail administrator create a file include
- alias for you in your MTA (sendmail, et al).. This is
- usually of the type
-
- alias :include:/some/path/to/a/file
-
- where the file would be in a place you control and you have write access
- to the file. Then you can add/drop members of the list, and
- the mail just goes to the alias, and, someone sending to
- alias@your.system will be able to send to all members. (group
- reply works correctly)
-
- The less preferred method: (no group reply is possible)
- Send the message to yourself, with a bcc to the Elm
- alias.
- Of course, the Bcc: won't be expanded by the MTA internal to
- the message, so it won't appear in the message.
-
-
- From comp.mail.elm, dws@ssec.wisc.edu (DaviD W. Sanderson) writes:
- >... whoever wrote the default termcap
- >and/or terminfo descriptions for xterm included in the ti/te strings
- >the special escape sequences to make xterm switch between the normal
- >and alternate screen buffers. These sequences are:
- >
- > \E[?47h - use alternate screen buffer
- > \E[?47l - use normal screen buffer
- >...
- >The elm code is just fine as it is. If you change it so that it
- >doesn't ever send ti/te, you'll just break elm for somebody else. Fix
- >your termcap/terminfo definition instead.
-
- Why can't I get SGI to work for non ROOT.....
- SGI, at 3.3, doesn't have vfork, but instead a stub that does
- not work. Make sure vfork is undef in the configuration.
-
- How do I link Elm on IBM AIX?
- On IBM RISC 6000 AIX, 3.2 or newer, to compile Elm
- during Configure, specify -U__STR__ to the 'Additional CFLAGS'
- question. No other changes are needed.
-
- On IBM RISC 6000 AIX, prior to 3.2, you might get string
- funtion errors on the compile. The solution is to do the following:
- Look at /usr/lpp/bos/bsdsport. It tells you
- to add following lines to /etc/xlc.cfg
-
- * BSD 4.3 c compiler stanza
- bsdcc: use = DEFLT
- crt = /lib/crt0.o
- mcrt = /lib/mcrt0.o
- gcrt = /lib/gcrt0.o
- libraries = -lbsd, -lc
- proflibs = -L/lib/profiled,-L/usr/lib/profiled
- options = -H512,-T512, -qlanglvl=extended, -qnoro, -D_BSD, -D_NONSTD_TYPES, -D_NO_PROTO, -D_BSD_INCLUDES, -bnodelcsect, -U__STR__, -U__MATH__
-
- And then link bsdcc to xlc and use bsdcc instead of cc.
-
- In addition, Elm should be linked with the curses lib and not termcap lib
- if /etc/termcap is not there. (You can always copy the termcap database
- to etc (or make a symlink)).
-
-
- On 386bsd, the shell that is shipped with the system, ash, does
- not work for sending messages within Elm. Mail messages have headers only
- and no body. Replacing the shell with bash (from GNU) seems to solve the
- problem. The bash shell is in the 'etc' distribution of 386bsd.
-
-
- Why does my mail to Dave Taylor bounce?
- His new address is limbo!taylor, or, taylor@intuitive.com
-
- --END--END--END--END--END----README SECTION----END--END--END--END--END--
-
- Starting with release 2.2, the Elm Development group will attempt to
- provide official patches to the release version to fix problems reported
- at the same time we are working on the next release. Also starting with
- release 2.2 a list of known problems will be published in this posting.
-
- Known bugs in Elm 2.4 PL13:
- The following are from the Elm 2.4 "To.Do" list that are
- considered bugs, not enhancements, that have not yet been done. Items
- which are enhancements are not listed here. It is our intention to
- release changes to 2.4 for some, but not necessarly all of these. Some
- of these will only be fixed in 3.0. (It depends on how extensive the
- change is to fix it, and what else it ties into in the 3.0 work).
- Items marked fixed will be deleted from the list on the next posting.
-
-
- Database last updated on Thursday 3-December-92 14:52:04 +0000 (GMT)
-
- General bugs and configuration bugs
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-
-
- GB01 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- Summary: Configuration questions need rearranging
- Description:
- The ordering of some sets of configuration questions could be
- improved. In some cases, the answer to a later question
- renders an earlier question moot. In such cases, the latter
- should proceed the former so that the former would only be
- asked if need be. This occurs with many of the configuration
- questions that deal with the domain routing and pathalias
- databases, appending the hostname and internet address style,
- etc.
-
-
- GB02 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- Summary: User id & mailbox algorithm should be consistant.
- Description:
- All programs need to use the same algorithm elm(1) and frm(1)
- use in establishing the user's id and the user's incoming
- mailbox.
-
-
-
- Elm(1) bugs
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-
-
- EB02 Version: 2.4PL0 Status: Open
- Open Date: 1-Oct-92 Close Date:
- Reported by: Elm Development Group <elm@dsi.com>
- Summary: Encryption is not fully implemented in ELM.
- Description:
- In elm(1) we have the following problems:
-
- When `b' (bouncing) a message or `f' (forwarding) a message
- without editing, an encrypted section of text in the original
- message wrongly gets encrypted a second time. The function
- that looks for encryption delimiters needs to know to ignore
- them in these situations.
-