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- From: SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher)
- Subject: Re: How to interpret when the end of piece of mail is reached?
- Message-ID: <19921119185304SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
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- Organization: Draper Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov16.171359.13685@cas.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 23:53:00 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- In article <1992Nov16.171359.13685@cas.org>,
- lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) writes:
-
- >In article <GUENTHER.92Nov12192657@amcl5.stolaf.edu> guenther@stolaf.edu (Philip A Guenther) writes:
- >
- >: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
- >
- >
- >Unfortunately, not all mail readers do this. Sun's OW mailtool , when using
- ^^
- "Un"????
-
- >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 ...
-
- In a more perfect world, one would only use mailers that didn't muck
- with lines starting with "From ".
-
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- Steve Bacher (Batchman) Draper Laboratory
- Internet: seb@draper.com Cambridge, MA, USA
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