Re: Lost new mail

Yngvar Folling (yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no)
Thu, 13 Jun 1996 17:23:57 +0200 (MET DST)

In article <A2xtxI5JoimM090yn@ritz.mordor.com>,
woody@ritz.mordor.com (Mark Weinstock) wrote:
> The problem that *I* have had is with lines with From and a blank line
> before it. For example, I subscribe to humor list. I get the digest
> version. Sometimes I end up with borken messages in my inbox because there
> is a From line with a bliank line before it (Or is it NO blank line?).
> Here's an example. The following line starts with the word

Odd. Very odd. This message was split up as described before, but
that's the first time it has happened to me in close to two years. And
I know that I've had messages with From lines that got a > prepended
before.

Did you have a blank line or not? As a general rule, From with a
capital F at the beginning of a line, happens at the beginning of a new
paragraph. That is, after a blank line. So if you did *not* have the
blank line, it would be a more unusual case, and I can understand better
why I wouldn't have seen it before.

But even so, neither part grew to 11 gigabytes in size the way Jim
described.

Yngvar