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Article #344Re: binmail vs MMDF mail file format
From: gregg.g.wonderly
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1989 15:13
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 1989 15:13
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From article <8887@chinet.chi.il.us>, by les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell): > AT&T's PMX mailer products include a new /bin/mail that uses > Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers to avoid the problem. This is just plain gross! Last I knew, the MTA was the one attaching this information. What is the poor MUA (for their /bin/mail, the asnwer is... If the text following Content-length bytes is not "From", seek back to Content-length and do normal "look for the From line" processing see, great solution :-() going to do with a file that has been altered by an unknowing editor (like vi or emacs)? Once again another format has been chosen that absolutely solves nothing! -- ----- gregg.g.wonderly@att.com (AT&T bell laboratories)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!att!cbnewsc!gregg From: gregg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (gregg.g.wonderly) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: binmail vs MMDF mail file format Message-ID: <1597@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Date: 7 Jul 89 15:13:20 GMT References: <8887@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 15