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- From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Subject: Re: How to interpret when the end of piece of mail is reached?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.171359.13685@cas.org>
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- Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
- Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
- References: <1992Nov8.214458.17317@prl.dec.com> <1992Nov12.160232.10446@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk> <GUENTHER.92Nov12192657@amcl5.stolaf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:12:20 GMT
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- In article <GUENTHER.92Nov12192657@amcl5.stolaf.edu> guenther@stolaf.edu (Philip A Guenther) writes:
- :In article <1992Nov12.160232.10446@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk> alan@ssd.ukpoit.co.uk (Alan Barclay) writes:
- : In article <1992Nov8.214458.17317@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
- : >The delimeter is a line that begins with: From<space>
- : >
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- : From Henry the eighth's time onwards, the English Established church,
- : the Church of England, has allowed divorce.
- :
-
- :If a non-header line begins with "From " then the mailer prepends a
- :">" onto it. All mail handlers I know do it this way and can handle
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- Unfortunately, not all mail readers do this. Sun's OW mailtool , when using
- logging, inserts a header containing the number of bytes in the following
- msg and then leaves the leading From lines alone. This plays havok when
- one trys to use mailtool within X but is forced to use a text based mailer
- outside of X ...
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