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- From: jromine@binky.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
- Subject: Re: MH and Solaris 2.x sendmail
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- Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
- Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
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- Date: 8 Jan 93 23:36:22 GMT
- References: <ANDYS.93Jan8161348@shlepper.sbi.com>
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- andys@flatline.sbi.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
- >We are running Solaris 2.1 and I've noticed a change in sendmail. To better
- >integrate with the multimedia mailtool, sendmail makes sure there are
- >Content-Type and Content-Length headers in every message. Since it
- >now *knows* the body length of a message, it has no need to prepend a
- >'>' to every line beginning with \nFrom. So it doesn't. The result is
- >that when my boss forwards a message to me, inc splits it into two
-
- What happens if a message already has a content-length header, but
- Sun's sendmail doesn't agree with the length given? TOPS20 used
- a mailbox format which included file lengths... it sure was a pain
- to edit those mailbox files.
-
- As for MH, it supports the UUCP-style (From user date ...) and
- MMDF-style (ctrl-A) mailbox formats. It doesn't support the newly-
- discovered Solaris-broken-UUCP-style mailbox format.
-
- It seems likely that other UAs will also not understand the
- Solaris-broken-UUCP-style mailbox format. Perhaps fixing
- /bin/mail to write the '>' characters is the right thing to do?
- --
- John Romine
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