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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: Problem with mailx in ESIX 4.0.4
- Message-ID: <BzD1Gn.KDG@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Dec15.154511.27086@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:21:58 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.
-
- Pre-sysvr4 mail used lines starting with "From " as the delimiters between
- messages in the mailbox file, and added the leading ">" to any such
- lines in the body of a message. SysVr4 mail uses a Content-Length: header
- to encapsulate the body and does not restrict or modify the content
- of the body.
- I'd recommend getting the current version of ELM which understands this
- convention and is a lot nicer than mailx anyway.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-