Problem with mailx in ESIX 4.0.4

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From: Hugh Conner
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 15:45

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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.

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From: hmc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Hugh Conner)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Problem with mailx in ESIX 4.0.4
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Date: 15 Dec 92 15:45:11 GMT
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