From exmh-users-admin@redhat.com Wed Oct 9 22:41:06 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D59A16F1A for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 22:40:01 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 09 Oct 2002 22:40:01 +0100 (IST) Received: from listman.example.com (listman.example.com [66.187.233.211]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g99IXOK16457 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:33:24 +0100 Received: from listman.example.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B98E741C72; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:32:34 -0400 (EDT) Delivered-To: exmh-users@listman.example.com Received: from int-mx1.corp.example.com (int-mx1.corp.example.com [172.16.52.254]) by listman.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7F742312 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:18:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by int-mx1.corp.example.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g99IIIe01687 for exmh-users@listman.redhat.com; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:18:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.example.com (mx1.example.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g99IIHf01680 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 14:18:17 -0400 Received: from sherman.stortek.com (sherman.stortek.com [129.80.22.146]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g99HwUX03598 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:58:30 -0400 Received: from sherman.stortek.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sherman.stortek.com (8.12.3/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g99II9OH006838 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:18:09 -0600 (MDT) Received: from vinson-ether1.stortek.com (vinson-ether1.stortek.com [129.80.16.134]) by sherman.stortek.com (8.12.3/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g99II8s3006835 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:18:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from tatanka.stortek.com (tatanka.stortek.com [129.80.90.4]) by vinson-ether1.stortek.com (8.12.3/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g99II8qv021686 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:18:08 -0600 (MDT) Received: from tatanka (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tatanka.stortek.com (8.11.6+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id g99IGd904228 for ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:16:43 -0600 (MDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: exmh-users@example.com Subject: Re: From In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:57:13 EDT." <200210091657.g99GvDmX025433@life.ai.mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <4226.1034187399@tatanka> From: "James C. McMaster (Jim)" X-Loop: exmh-users@example.com Sender: exmh-users-admin@example.com Errors-To: exmh-users-admin@example.com X-Beenthere: exmh-users@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: exmh-users@example.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion list for EXMH users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:16:39 -0600 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, T_NONSENSE_FROM_00_10,T_NONSENSE_FROM_10_20, T_NONSENSE_FROM_20_30,T_NONSENSE_FROM_30_40, T_NONSENSE_FROM_40_50,T_NONSENSE_FROM_50_60, T_NONSENSE_FROM_60_70,T_NONSENSE_FROM_70_80, T_NONSENSE_FROM_80_90,T_NONSENSE_FROM_90_91, T_NONSENSE_FROM_91_92,T_NONSENSE_FROM_92_93, T_NONSENSE_FROM_93_94,T_NONSENSE_FROM_94_95, T_NONSENSE_FROM_95_96,T_NONSENSE_FROM_96_97, T_NONSENSE_FROM_97_98,T_NONSENSE_FROM_98_99, T_NONSENSE_FROM_99_100,X_LOOP version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: This is not an exmh problem, but an interaction between sendmail, Solaris and mh. Your sysadmin is wrong. It is the responsibility of the receiving mail server to escape lines beginning with "From " if they choose to turn on that facility. It is not the responsibility for email clients to cater to the stupid design of the unix mail spool, and Sun's even more stupid decision to rely on "Content-length:" instead of dealing with this problem. Since mh is unaware of "Content-length:", rcvstore gags trying to parse messages from the spool. I had this same problem. There are several ways to fix it: 1) Get your mail administrator to add the "E" flag to your sendmail. This means you will never see a line beginning with "From ". Any such line will look like ">From ". 2) There is a patch to mh to make it respect "Content-length:". When I was having this problem, porting this patch to nmh was low on the priority list, then nmh development stalled for a long time. I doubt it has been done, but you can check with the nmh list at nmh-workers@mhost.com to find out for sure. 3) You can learn to use procmail, invoking rcvstore directly instead of letting sendmail put your incoming mail into the spool. This avoids the whole issue. rcvstore only deals with a single message at a time, and everything works. -- Jim McMaster mailto:mcmasjc@tatanka.stortek.com In message <200210091657.g99GvDmX025433@life.ai.mit.edu>, Jason Rennie said: > > When I receive a message that has a line starting with "From ", it's > broken into two messages. I get my mail from /var/spool/mail. The > program that incorporates mail thinks that the "From " line starts a new > message. > > My sysadmins have told me that the sending mail client is supposed to > escape lines begining with "From ". EXMH (2.5) doesn't do this. Should > it? It appears that my MH is MH 6.8. Does NMH fix this? > > Jason D. M. Rennie > MIT AI Lab > jrennie@ai.mit.edu > (617) 253-5339 > http://www.ai.mit.edu/~jrennie/ > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Exmh-users mailing list > Exmh-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/exmh-users > _______________________________________________ Exmh-users mailing list Exmh-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/exmh-users