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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0001743 | Issue 8 drafts | Shell and Utilities | public | 2023-06-08 20:48 | 2024-06-11 09:12 |
| Reporter | steffen | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | Editorial | Type | Error |
| Status | Closed | Resolution | Accepted | ||
| Product Version | Draft 3 | ||||
| Name | steffen | ||||
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| Section | mailx | ||||
| Page Number | 3085, 3087 | ||||
| Line Number | 103783, 103869 | ||||
| Final Accepted Text | |||||
| Summary | 0001743: mailx: revert faulty change | ||||
| Description | Hello. Unfortunately i introduced "another fault", another non-portable-across-implementations problem. It is the *metoo* variable that does not affect `alternates' (command) names in the historical, and the BSD codebases, but _only_ $LOGNAME. For those, `alternates' are _always_ removed from recipient lists (and _only_ when replying). (And the *from* and *sender* variables are non-portable.) (It is also that further mailx(1) development can hardly be expected in portable manner, standardizable manner.) | ||||
| Desired Action | On page 3085, line 103783 ff., change Suppress the deletion of the user’s login name and any alternative addresses from the recipient list when replying to a message or sending to a group. The default shall be nometoo. to Suppress the deletion of the user’s login name from the recipient list when replying to a message or sending to a group. The default shall be nometoo. On page 3087, line 103869 ff., change Declare a list of alternative addresses for the address consisting of the user’s login name. When responding to a message or sending to a group, if the metoo variable is unset these alternative addresses shall be removed from the list of recipients. The comparison of addresses shall be performed in a case-insensitive manner. With no arguments, alternates shall write the current list of alternative addresses. to Declare a list of alternative addresses for the address consisting of the user’s login name. When responding to a message these alternative addresses shall be removed from the list of recipients. The comparison of addresses shall be performed in a case-insensitive manner. With no arguments, alternates shall write the current list of alternative addresses. Page and line numbers from IEEE P1003.1™-202x/D3, March 2023. | ||||
| Tags | applied_after_i8d3, issue8 | ||||
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But what current POSIX defines is a sane approach, and work has been put into it so that it is like that. And it mirrors what other MUAs do (mutt for example). And it can be implemented on all codebases in a few minutes. If it is not too much work you could close this. The only real thing is on page 3087, line 103862 ff., insert after [.] for example, when hlj is an alias, hlj@posix.com does not trigger the alias substitution. the sentences Recursive expansion of an alias group member can be prevented by prefixing it with an unquoted <backslash>. describing status quo of all codebases; i open a different issue on that. Sorry. "Despair" on my side: if you read documentation and see the clean approach of a from-scratch implementation like from mutt, for example, with slightly different meaning of metoo, alternates and alias. |
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We discussed this during the 2023-07-24 conference call and found 0001743:0006342 ambiguous. It sounds like the submitter is unhappy with the proposed changes in the note. We are backing out the changes made in issue 8 as suggested in the desired action and look forward to a new bug report to address the issues raised in the note. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2023-06-08 20:48 | steffen | New Issue | |
| 2023-06-08 20:48 | steffen | Name | => steffen |
| 2023-06-08 20:48 | steffen | Section | => mailx |
| 2023-06-08 20:48 | steffen | Page Number | => 3085, 3087 |
| 2023-06-08 20:48 | steffen | Line Number | => 103783, 103869 |
| 2023-06-13 14:51 | geoffclare | Project | 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 => Issue 8 drafts |
| 2023-06-20 18:24 | steffen | Note Added: 0006342 | |
| 2023-07-20 23:42 | Don Cragun | Product Version | => Draft 3 |
| 2023-07-24 15:33 | Don Cragun | Status | New => Resolved |
| 2023-07-24 15:33 | Don Cragun | Resolution | Open => Accepted |
| 2023-07-24 15:34 | Don Cragun | Tag Attached: issue8 | |
| 2023-07-24 15:42 | Don Cragun | Note Added: 0006399 | |
| 2023-07-24 17:59 | Don Cragun | Note Edited: 0006399 | |
| 2023-08-22 14:27 | geoffclare | Status | Resolved => Applied |
| 2023-08-22 14:27 | geoffclare | Tag Attached: applied_after_i8d3 | |
| 2024-06-11 09:12 | agadmin | Status | Applied => Closed |
