Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:30:06 +0100 From: Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de> To: peter@freefall.freebsd.org Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/922 Message-ID: <199601021730.SAA13547@saturn> In-Reply-To: <199601011236.EAA20439@freefall.freebsd.org>
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In article <199601011236.EAA20439@freefall.freebsd.org> you write: >Synopsis: From line handling incorrect in mail.local > >State-Changed-From-To: open-analyzed >State-Changed-By: peter >State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 1 04:30:15 PST 1996 >State-Changed-Why: >This is actually intended behavior... > >The end-of-message marker is a blank line followed by "^From ".. >ie: >"\n\nFrom " > >So, if you have a message like this: (indented for example) > > foo bar baz > From this I can see blah.. > >It should not be escaped because there is not a blank line. > >However: > > foo bar baz > > From this I can see blah... > >...should be escaped as the mail system cannot distinguish the end-of-msg. > >The actual bug is in pine and elm's mailbox decoding. > >Perhaps a 'bug compatable' flag for mail.local is needed? > Or you can also have sendmail do the escaping (E in LOCAL_MAILER_FLAGS in your .mc), that is `bug compatable' too. maybe a note should be added somewhere in the elm/pine ports? greetings from another elm user... Juergen
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