Re: MY IN BOX IS GETTING MESSED UP PLEASE HELP!!
Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Fri, 17 May 1996 02:00:01 -0400
Gregory Perron <gaperron@nyx10.nyx.net> wrote:
|It's the same old "from" problem. Basically, mailers are *supposed* to
|preface any message body line beginning with "from" with ">"; creating
|">from." If the mailer doesn't, uqwk interprets the line beginning
|with from as a new message, and does the following:
|1) puts the header and up to the offending line where-ever it was headed
|(e.g. will filter to a pseudonewsgroup).
|2) deletes the offending line.
|3) puts the rest of the message in inbox (unless, I suppose, you filter
|based on message body, where it *might* get pseudo-newsgroup'd).
|
|
|Yes, this is a bummer. No, I don't know how to fix it, aside from a
|uqwk patch. Which is apparently not going to happen, at least not by the
|original author.
|
|--
|Gregory Perron |Dedicate yourself to the celebration of
|gaperron@nyx.net |beauty and the creation of things beautiful.
Preprocess your mail before running it through uqwk. I change all my
"^From " lines to "from ", then I convert my MMDF format to the older
mbox format and add the "^From " line at the beginning of the MMDF
boundary.
Gary