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- From: exodus@vsync.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg Onufer)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
- Subject: Re: MH and Solaris 2.x sendmail
- Date: 9 Jan 1993 08:50:26 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- Message-ID: <lkt4eiINNlsn@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <ANDYS.93Jan8161348@shlepper.sbi.com>
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- andys@flatline.sbi.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
- >Interesting problem here. We are running Solaris 2.1 (a/k/a SunOS 5.1
- >a/k/a Sun's SVr4), 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
- >parts.
-
- I believe the AnswerBook covers this, but...
-
- In your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file, add the 'E' flag to the flags
- in the local and prog mailers. Re-freeze the config file, restart
- sendmail, etc. The SVR4 headers are still added, but the From
- lines will be quoted.
-
- My workaround to get rid of all of the SVR4-isms was to use
- slocal and have my .maildelivery file just put everything into
- /var/mail. slocal at least did it properly.
-
- Cheers!greg
-
- PS. I don't think the new mail format has anything to do with
- mailtool but was a change made by AT&T. Does someone have an
- authoritative answer?
-