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Article #145Re: What's the "magic" of a Unix mailbox file?
From: Anthony Heading
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 11:30
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 11:30
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In article <Bss42z.G4z@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes: >That's the tail wagging the dog. Fix your "from" command instead... it >should only a few lines of Perl or Awk. >Heh. That's the _definition_ of a kludge. Alright, alright. I concede. I've been completely prejudiced because all my outgoing mail passed through a VMS DECnet mail gateway, which strips all the headers out and re-manufactures badly the few it understands. And it seems that there is little in any of the standards to forbid that. The idea of enforcing user names in envelope addresses seemed neat, but I admit on reflection that proper treatment of headers is much better. I await the day that I need never touch DECnet again. Anthony -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Heading (heading@hermes.mod.uk) DRA Malvern, UK Any opinions expressed are my own and in no way
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!rsre!breeze!heading From: heading@breeze.rsre.mod.uk (Anthony Heading) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: What's the "magic" of a Unix mailbox file? Message-ID: <BstHDL.1I7@breeze.rsre.mod.uk> Date: 11 Aug 92 11:30:34 GMT References: <1992Aug6.153531.30349@mp.cs.niu.edu> <BsLw4t.7pu@breeze.rsre.mod.uk> <Bss42z.G4z@mtholyoke.edu> Organization: Defence Research Agency Lines: 21