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andys@flatline.sbi.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
>Interesting problem here.  We are running Solaris 2.1 (a/k/a SunOS 5.1
>a/k/a Sun's SVr4), 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
>parts.

I believe the AnswerBook covers this, but...

In your /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file, add the 'E' flag to the flags
in the local and prog mailers.  Re-freeze the config file, restart
sendmail, etc.  The SVR4 headers are still added, but the From
lines will be quoted.

My workaround to get rid of all of the SVR4-isms was to use
slocal and have my .maildelivery file just put everything into
/var/mail.  slocal at least did it properly.

Cheers!greg

PS.  I don't think the new mail format has anything to do with
mailtool but was a change made by AT&T.  Does someone have an
authoritative answer?