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In article <csamsi.130.0013EF40@clark.net>, csamsi@clark.net (Caesar M
Samsi) wrote:

>I have 3.1.28.1 #5, Nov 93 and it is broken. It inserts extraneous 
>linefeeds and tabs making the spool file looking like follows:
>
>>From root Thu Sep 15 18:08:36 1994
>>Return-Path: <root>
>>Received:  
>>       by csamsi_ppp.clark.net  
>>               (Linux Smail3.1.28.1 #5)
>         
>>       id m0qlOyp-0004vrC; Thu, 15 Sep 94 18:08 EDT
>>Message-Id: <m0qlOyp-0004vrC@csamsi_ppp.clark.net>

I hit this, it's actually a trivial fix.  The config file that specifies
this stuff (I forget which SMAIL file it is, but you can probably find it,
I did :-) has code like this:

  "Received: " \
  "by $blah " \

etc.  The problem is that the \ is suppose to be quoting and removing the
newline.  But for reasons unknown, there is a space in the file after the
\ and before the newline character, so the \ quote the space instead and
the newline is inserted into the data.  Deleting the space after the \
fixes the problem.
   Peter.
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