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Article #3468Elm under SCO UNIX 3.2
From: Lauri Toropainen
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 10:26
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 10:26
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I have just installed elm to our SCO Unix 3.2. After a long (and desperate) configuration of sendmail, everything finally seems to work OK. There's just this one exception: SCO local mailer seems to add a delimeter string of 4 CTRL-A's before and after each message it delivers to the incoming mailbox files. For instance, /usr/spool/mail/larry looks like ^A^A^A^A From ... <header lines> <message body> ^A^A^A^A The trouble is that elm is not able to read this file because of those control characters. Instead, it gives the following error message: Folder is corrupt!! I can't read it!! So, what next? Are these CTRL-A's a feature specified exclusively by SCO? Should I use a different local mailer (right now it is lmail)? Or is it possible to configure elm to ignore these characters? Any ideas? Lauri -- Signature? What signature? Let me read the small print first!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!kannel!larry From: larry@lut.fi (Lauri Toropainen) Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm Subject: Elm under SCO UNIX 3.2 Message-ID: <1991Jun27.102645.21572@lut.fi> Date: 27 Jun 91 10:26:45 GMT Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Lines: 29