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In article <1992Dec15.154511.27086@cs.hw.ac.uk>, 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 is a known problem in mailx. Individual messages are supposed to be
divided
by lines starting with "From ", not "from" or "from ".  But mailx is doing
this without
looking at the case. You need a fix from your vendor. Or a decent mailreader
like
ELM. :-))

	Regards
		Bo

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