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- From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
- Subject: Re: /bin/mail for MH?
- Message-ID: <9207281942.AA27716@nlbull.bull.nl>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 21:42:14 GMT
- References: <9207281753.AA24306@alex.lcs.mit.edu>
- Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
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- Organization: The Internet
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- > We use MH with sendmail. To deliver local mail, sendmail calls
- > /bin/mail, which does the necessary locking and appends to the
- > user's mail spool file. Unfortunately, /bin/mail also has the
- > anachronistic feature of changing "From " lines to ">From ".
- >
- > Is there an MH program we could have sendmail use instead of
- > /bin/mail for local delivery that would not mung our mail?
- > Any other suggestions?
-
- When you use a standard UNIX mailbox format (in /usr/spool/mail or
- in /usr/mail on some System V systems), mail messages are stored
- using the convention that each message starts with "From ".
- So, each local mail delivery program MUST change existing "From "
- lines into something else, unfortunately, to keep it this format.
-
- When using programs to store messages in another way, any mail
- utility operating on those mailboxes do NOT work anymore.
-
- BUT: you can use slocal (MH) to call in your personal .forward file.
- Then you store incoming mail messages immediately in MH mailbox
- format, not passing any local mail delivery tool (and thus also
- bypassing the mailbox format with "From ").
-
- --
- -- Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl> (UUCP: ...!{uunet,mcsun,sun4nl}!nlbull!jos)
- -- Bull Nederland NV, Product Support Unix, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-