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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!cats.ucsc.edu!haynes From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (James H. Haynes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Annoying Property of UCB Mail Program Date: 1 Feb 1995 18:31:25 GMT Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz Lines: 12 Message-ID: <3gok1t$31e@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu mail (UCB version) seems to be the most popular mail program here. As postmaster I get tons of lost mail from beginning users who have tried to say 'mail -f <something>' at the & prompt. I wish somebody would fix the mail program to at least detect the '-' when somebody does that and tell the user it won't work. While we're at it, another cause of much postmaster mail from novice users comes from those who say mail user @ host . dom . ain Now it's hard to detect all cases of that kind of crock, but a more postmaster-friendly version of the program might at least detect the @-sign and dot isolated by white space and clue the user.