Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 11:12:04 -0400 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? Message-ID: <9604111512.AA14847@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604111104.VAA10387@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> References: <199604110753.JAA04132@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199604111104.VAA10387@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
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<<On Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:04:37 +1000 (EST), michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> said: > One (good ?) reason why Sun & SVR4 went for a 'Content-Length' header line > .. it helped some sysadmins from having heart-failure trying to track > "anonymous" messages down that didn't appear in their logs :-) Only if you have broken mailbox-parsing software. `Content-Length' is bogus. The indication of mailbox message boundaries should be out-of-band. This is one of the things that MMDF, MH, and AMS all got right; in MMDF, messages are delimited by ^A^A^A^A, and in the other two, messages are kept in separate files. It might be nice for mail.local to be able to deliver to MMDF-style mailboxes. There are a number of user agents out there (e.g., VM 5.95) which are capable of dealing with this format. Perhaps an AMS-style delivery mechanism would be useful as well. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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