From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 16 14:24:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA19477 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:24:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA19420; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 14:23:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA29224; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:41:45 GMT (envelope-from brian@gate.lan.awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199711162141.VAA29224@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jonathan M. Bresler" cc: brian@awfulhak.org (Brian Somers), freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/mail filters in 2.2.5 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 16 Nov 1997 06:46:03 PST." <199711161446.GAA24588@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 21:41:44 +0000 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > BIGFOOT.DALTEK.NET^M #blocked. contact postmaster > > > > > > first, that "^M" is it in the file? > > > is so please delete it. > > > after deleting the "^M" > > > cd /etc/mail; make install > > > > Hmm, the domains.txt I got with the ``make'' had 'em in, so I figured > > they were meant to be :-I > > ahh.....did you use DOS! > "^M" is teh DOS extra end-of-line character. > DOS uses both and to indicate and end-of-line. > Unix uses only one, the Mac uses the other. Funny this. I did the ``make'' from a FreeBSD box. Perhaps ftp://ftp.gulf.net/pub/docs/domains.txt really has got nasty ^Ms at the end of the lines :-| AFAIK, fetch *never* does ascii (^M) translations (this is correct IMHO). Oh well, they're gone now :-) Thanks again. [.....] > jmb -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....