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- From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
- Subject: Re: MH and Solaris 2.x sendmail
- Message-ID: <9301111954.AA03289@wilma.cs.utk.edu>
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "11 Jan 1993 16:08:50 GMT."
- <ANDYS.93Jan11110850@shlepper.sbi.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
- Lines: 30
- Date: 11 Jan 93 19:56:18 GMT
-
- > From: Andy Sherman <andys@flatline.sbi.com>
- > Subject: Re: MH and Solaris 2.x sendmail
- > Date: 11 Jan 93 16:08:50 GMT
-
- > No, it is not in the cards for me to mung /bin/mail. Another poster
- > pointed out that sendmail *does* have an option to quote From_ lines,
- > which I may do, although I'd much rather teach MH to grok
- > Content-Length headers (the ugly hack is building as we speak). My
- > reasoning is that Sun did *not* break UUCP-style maildrops, but rather
- > they unbroke them in preparation for things like a) their multi-media
- > mail, b) MIME, and c) X.400, all of which use content-length to give
- > you a definitive answer to the question "Where does the $%$##@# body
- > end, anyway?"
-
- FYI, MIME does *NOT* use content-length, or anything like it. The
- content-length header is completely nonstandard.
-
- The ">From" hack is ugly, no doubt about it. However, using a header field
- to delimit messages within a mailbox strikes me as even worse, particularly
- when it breaks interoperability with other systems using NFS as a mail access
- protocol.
-
- However, it seems like MH wants to support the local mailbox format, whatever
- that is...so it might do well for a future version of MH to be able to grok
- Content-length headers on local mailboxes only on Solaris systems. But I'd
- just as soon they be REMOVED from all outgoing mail. The presence of
- Content-length headers in Internet email is just going to add to the general
- confusion about what is standard and what isn't.
-
- Keith Moore
-