Re: Lost new mail

Gary H (garyh@sco.COM)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 21:25:28 -0700

Yngvar Folling <yngvar.folling@login.eunet.no> wrote:
|All right, I think I know what got me confused now. I didn't realize
|that Mark Weinstock's message had *two* lines that started with From.
|One inside a paragraph, and one which was in the beginning of one. It
|was actually the from *inside* the paragraph (no blank line ahead) that
|split the message in two for me. That has never happened in a normal
|message, as from in the beginning of a line practically always starts a
|new paragraph. And in *that* case sendmail inserts a > in front and
|everything works fine. Apparently sendmail doesn't do that if From
|appears in the beginning of a line with *no* blank line in front, but
|uqwk splits it up anyway.
|
|Yngvar

This is definately a problem with uqwk. I have a script the preprocesses
all my mail from MMDF to regular sendmail format. It also will check
"from " lines inside msgs. Haven't had a problem since.

Gary