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?).
The reason for this is that uqwk, the program which turns mailboxes into
SOUP, is following the standards, and your mail server isn't. A line
with just "From " on a line, often after a blank line, indicates to the
mail agent that here a new message starts.
uqwk, which is assuming your mail server knows what it's doing, simply
sees the "From " line, and happily indicates a new message there in the
soup packet. Since that message is obviously missing important information,
you're getting weird results with Yarn.
In short: If you're getting that kind of message, yell at your sysadmin
that his sendmail is broken. According to the specs, if you're using this
method to separate messages, sendmail *must* escape "From " lines if
they are inside the message.
Galactus
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