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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: mail (was: The Problem with UNIX)
- Message-ID: <19921117182852SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
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- Organization: Draper Laboratory
- References: <Bxr5BA.5G5@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 23:28:00 GMT
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- In article <Bxr5BA.5G5@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>,
- mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
-
- >>~tilde
- >
- >Well, of course. If you don't like "~" being the escape character,
- >change it to something else. Or type it to an editor instead of
- >mail's builtin text-collector. Or type it directly to
- >/usr/lib/sendmail. (Of course, then you won't be able to edit your
- >prose, but I suppose you don't want to...)
-
- I don't want to. I'm not talking about being in an editor. I'm talking
- about automagically feeding a file to the mailer, possibly in a shell
- script. Yes, using sendmail with the proper bouquet of flags will do
- most of this, except for...
-
- >>From time immemorial
- >
- >This is a problem with the MTA on the receiving system. Get one that
- >knows about Content-Length: or uses something other than From_ to
- >delimit messages, and you'll be fine.
-
- Any suggestions? You're talking about replacing sendmail with
- something else. If I'm just a lowly user on a machine owned by
- somebody else who can't be bothered with replacing sendmail with
- something else, what recourse do I have?
-
- >>.
- >
- >A clear configuration problem with your MUA. You need to turn on the
- >"nodot" flag, or get a different MUA.
-
- True.
-
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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