Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 07:00:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: agifford@infowest.com (Aaron D. Gifford) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mail.local patch -- Was: /var/mail default permissions?? Message-ID: <199604111100.HAA03929@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960410195337.006f3500@infowest.com> from "Aaron D. Gifford" at Apr 10, 96 01:53:37 pm
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> Same occured here... I get my mail via POP (running qpopper). > > I tracked down the cause of the problem. The problem is that mail.local > ONLY prepends the famous ">" character to "From " lines ONLY WHEN the line > above is blank (containing only a newline). Apparently, some mail readers > (elm was mentioned above as being a victim, and my qpopper also had the > problem) use a properly formatted "From " line as the separator WHETHER OR > NOT the line above is blank. The problem isn't elm. At the moment I'm using popclient talking to: > +OK QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version 2.1.4-R3) at mail.zipnet.net starting. which I guess is qpopper, and so it is retrieving the messages improperly and dumping them into my local mailbox where I'm looking at them with elm. -- Temporarily via "hdalog@zipnet.net"... Peter Dufault Real-Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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