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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.

Pre-sysvr4 mail used lines starting with "From " as the delimiters between
messages in the mailbox file, and added the leading ">" to any such
lines in the body of a message.  SysVr4 mail uses a Content-Length: header
to encapsulate the body and does not restrict or modify the content
of the body.
I'd recommend getting the current version of ELM which understands this
convention and is a lot nicer than mailx anyway.

Les Mikesell
 les@chinet.chi.il.us