Re: MH and Solaris 2.x sendmail

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From: John Romine
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 23:36

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andys@flatline.sbi.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
>We are running Solaris 2.1 and I've noticed a change in sendmail.  To better
>integrate with the multimedia mailtool, sendmail makes sure there are
>Content-Type and Content-Length headers in every message.  Since it
>now *knows* the body length of a message, it has no need to prepend a
>'>' to every line beginning with \nFrom.  So it doesn't.  The result is
>that when my boss forwards a message to me, inc splits it into two

What happens if a message already has a content-length header, but
Sun's sendmail doesn't agree with the length given?  TOPS20 used
a mailbox format which included file lengths... it sure was a pain
to edit those mailbox files.

As for MH, it supports the UUCP-style (From user date ...) and
MMDF-style (ctrl-A) mailbox formats.  It doesn't support the newly-
discovered Solaris-broken-UUCP-style mailbox format.

It seems likely that other UAs will also not understand the
Solaris-broken-UUCP-style mailbox format.  Perhaps fixing
/bin/mail to write the '>' characters is the right thing to do?
--
John Romine

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