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- From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
- Subject: Re: MH and Solaris 2.x sendmail
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.155727.11219@fwi.uva.nl>
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- Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
- References: <ANDYS.93Jan8161348@shlepper.sbi.com> <2B4E0FF6.9321@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:57:27 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- jromine@binky.ics.uci.edu (John Romine) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- First of all, it isn't sendmail that adds the Content-Length: header,
- it is the local mailer. It fixes the Content-length header if you
- send a wrong one, as it should. (Or it simply always replaces it).
-
- >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.
-
- Ah. The ``ugly hack with >From'' is better? Bullshit. A Content-Length:
- header seems the only right way (no need to escape anything in any message).
-
- >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?
-
- Elm does understand Content-Length: headers. MH is the only other
- mail agent we have installed that doesn't come with the system. All
- Solaris UA understant Content-Length: headers.
-
- Fixing MH would be the proper thing to do.
-
- Casper
-