From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 11 04:11:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA04837 for current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 04:11:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.com (ip93-max1-fitch.zipnet.net [199.232.245.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA04825 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 04:11:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA03929; Thu, 11 Apr 1996 07:00:46 -0400 From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199604111100.HAA03929@hda.com> Subject: Re: mail.local patch -- Was: /var/mail default permissions?? To: agifford@infowest.com (Aaron D. Gifford) Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 07:00:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960410195337.006f3500@infowest.com> from "Aaron D. Gifford" at Apr 10, 96 01:53:37 pm Reply-to: hdalog@zipnet.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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