09/21/87 executive_mail Known errors in the current release of executive_mail. # Associated TR's Description 138 If you read mail in another person's mailbox and try to reply to that mail, and if the reply-to person was not the sender of the mail, the name of the recipient of the mail (the person whose mailbox you're reading) will be placed in the cc: field automatically. emacs_rmail has the same problem. This is caused by calling mlsys_utils_ $create_reply_message with the reply_option.flag.include_recipients set to true. If this is not set to true, no-one in the cc field will be included in the reply. 135 phx20728 When a user supplies a search string for selecting messages, the entire message is searched including portions that are not displayed on the screen. Only those portions which are displayed should be searched so as to avoid confusion. This problem occurs because xmail uses mlsys_utils_$search_message to perform the search. This program will search whatever portion of the message the caller requests (envelope, header, redistribution_list, body), but xmail's version of a header is drawn from portions of several of these structures which must be searched in their entirety to cover the visible-to-xmail fields. Therefore, non-visible fields are matched. The alternative is to not use this facility, but to write a whole separate parser to examine what xmail knows about. One possible alternative to scrapping the mlsys_util program might be to provide a means for xmail to display the entire header so that users could determine why messages were selected. 113 Xmail creates a segment name for a deferred reply by changing the first 70 bits of the message_id into a unique character string. This has lead to problems when dealing with foreign mail, as the mechanism to generate message IDs will only guarantee a unique ID with local mail and within a process for foreign mail. In a small amount of cases, xmail will try to use a deferred reply for a different message. A possible solution is to generate the segment name by changing the bits of the date_time_created field into a unique character string. 112 phx19445 It is possible to be placed into the lisp environment during xmail if the break key is hit at exactly the right time when the editor is first setting up. The window of time is extremely small and the problem is difficult to reproduce. It is caused by the small window between lisp and emacs initialization where the emacs quit handler is invoked but not all things are initialized. This is a system limitation for xmail at this time. 96 phx17755 Xmail does not consider the case where the user may not be at the same authorization as the access class of the .mlsys dir. 38 phx12077 Executive_mail cannot run while the audit system is on. This should be documented as a limitation. 29 phx12778 An error message, "Fatal error ... 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