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hmc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Hugh Conner) writes:
: We have several 486 based systems running ESIX 4.0.4. When using the mailx
: command to read mail messages a problem occurs if the first word on a line
: of the message is 'from'. I notice that when sending mail if the first word
: is 'From' with a capital F it replaces it with '>From' which I assume is meant
: to stop the mail reader treating it as the start of a new message. This does
: happen with 'from' and although /bin/mail reads the message ok, mailx
: decides that the line starting 'from' is a new message. Does anyone know a
: patch for this or should I just compile a decent mail reader and scrap mailx.

	This indeed is one of the known problems with mailx. There is one more
problem with mailx while reading mail. If any of the mail messages have
non-text byte, then the mailx reading goes berserk. It for the reasons I
fail to fathom, appends the mail portion after that funny character at the
end of the mail box and the effect is that you see your mailbox growing
EXPONENTIALLY. You neither can delete the mail message which has this funny
byte nor delete the mail messages after that as mailx fail to recognize the
mail boubdaries. 

	No easy patch I suppose. We have switched to MH and we are very happy
with it.
 MH source :

  via anonymous ftp:
    FTP Site:		IP Address:	Path/File Name:		Size:
    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    ftp.ics.uci.edu	[128.195.1.1]	mh/mh-6.7.tar.Z		1.6MB
    louie.udel.edu	[128.175.1.3]	portal/mh-6.7.tar.Z	1.6MB
    ftp.uu.net		[137.39.1.9]	mail/mh/tar/mh-6.7.tar.Z-split/	256K*7
  					README, part01, ..., part07

Cheers,
nitin

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Nitin Kaulavkar, SysAdm, <nitin@cse.iitb.ernet.in>
S/W and Computing Laboratory, Dept of C.S.E. ,IIT, Bombay 400 076.
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