Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 07:28:53 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail doesn't write exactly in mailbox format Message-ID: <199603140628.HAA00620@knobel.gun.de>
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Hi !
I hoped, that after doing a make world this ugly error would
vanish but it doesn't.
Since about beginning of March I have a big problem with sendmail.
It doesn't write strictly mailbox format.
If a mail is appended to a file because of such an entry
in /etc/aliases:
freebsd-current: /home/andreas/mailing-lists/freebsd-current
then the new mail will be saved with a leading ' ' (whitespace) in
front of the first From of a new mail. This causes articles to vanish,
since every mailer searches a new article in a mailfolder file by
looking for a "From" at the very beginning of a line.
I already checked, that it isn't elm or pine's fault. It's sendmail
writing this garbage. Where in hell does that leading whitespace
come from ?!
I wrote a little shellscript, that repairs my mailinglist folders
by doing this:
#! /bin/sh
for i in $*
do
ex $i << !EOM
g/^\ From\ /s/^\ From\ /From\ /
w
q
!EOM
done
What makes me really wonder is the fact, that mail in my incoming
mailfolder isn't crippled, only things I save into a file by an
entry in /etc/aliases.
Example:
----------------------------------
Rest of a previous mail.........................
Finally, the size of the perl5 distribution is much larger than that of
perl4, and no-one has stepped forward with a Perl5 that has been
properly B-maked, so it can replace current perl4.
Nate
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