NetBSD Problem Report #21514

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Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 15:07:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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Subject: vacation allows unacceptably dangerous behavior
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>Number:         21514
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       vacation allows unacceptably dangerous behavior
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 09 19:08:00 +0000 2003
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Sat May 17 10:55:13 +0000 2003
>Originator:     John Hawkinson
>Release:        -current of 19 April (et seq)
>Organization:
	MIT
>Environment:


System: NetBSD lsc.mit.edu 1.6_STABLE NetBSD 1.6_STABLE (GENERICDEBUG) #1: Thu Jan 9 12:38:32 EST 2003 root@lsc.mit.edu:/u1/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERICDEBUG i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
	In response to bin/5039, Christos added support to allow
	vacation to reply to messages that arrive with only an Apparently-To:
	header, or a Delivered-To: header. In response to concerns
	from me, expressed on source-changes (circa 19 April), that support
	was amended to do so via options, only.

	I believe that support continues to be wrongheaded. vacation -t A
	and vacation -t D will cause vacation to respond to mail it should
	never respond to, violating standards.

	My assessment is that the entire field of changes stemming from
	bin/5039 should be backed out. They serve no legitimate purpose,
	increase tool complexity, and have a significant chance of hurting
	users.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
	revert the changes in question.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: dsl 
State-Changed-When: Sat May 17 10:39:47 UTC 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
Duplicate of 21545 
State-Changed-From-To: closed->open 
State-Changed-By: dsl 
State-Changed-When: Sat May 17 10:54:49 UTC 2003 
State-Changed-Why:  
closed wrong bug :-( 
>Unformatted:

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