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- From: bam@jutland.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Bo Muldbak)
- Subject: Re: Problem with mailx in ESIX 4.0.4
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.150519.26346@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM>
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- Reply-To: Bo.Muldbak@ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM
- Organization: NCR Corporation, MCPD Columbia SC.
- References: <1992Dec15.154511.27086@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 20:05:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.154511.27086@cs.hw.ac.uk>, hmc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Hugh Conner)
- writes:
- |> We have several 486 based systems running ESIX 4.0.4. When using the mailx
- |> command to read mail messages a problem occurs if the first word on a line
- |> of the message is 'from'. I notice that when sending mail if the first
- |> word
- |> is 'From' with a capital F it replaces it with '>From' which I assume is
- |> meant
- |> to stop the mail reader treating it as the start of a new message. This
- |> does
- |> happen with 'from' and although /bin/mail reads the message ok, mailx
- |> decides that the line starting 'from' is a new message. Does anyone know a
- |> patch for this or should I just compile a decent mail reader and scrap
- |> mailx.
-
- This is a known problem in mailx. Individual messages are supposed to be
- divided
- by lines starting with "From ", not "from" or "from ". But mailx is doing
- this without
- looking at the case. You need a fix from your vendor. Or a decent mailreader
- like
- ELM. :-))
-
- Regards
- Bo
-
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