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Re: unread mail

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From: Dave Scott
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 1996 00:00
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In article: <836614376snx@llondel.demon.co.uk>  David Hough 
<dave@llondel.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> In article <836578430snz@pcserv.demon.co.uk>
>    Paul Carpenter <paul@pcserv.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > 
> > From experience this process gets screwed up, by paragraphs like this one,
> > because the start of the paragraph is '<newline><newline>From' which is
> > the SAME as the way the DOS package reads the start of a message.
> > 
> But somewhere in the process (is it in the KA9Q SMTP receive?) it spots 
> all these '<newline>From ' and sticks a '>' before the 'From '.

I can certainly confirm that WinDis does, so presume KA9Q does too.

But can someone please clarify/confirm once and for all...

'<newline>From ' begins a new message

'<newline><newline>From ' just means there is a blank line at the end of 
the previous message :) At least that's what my own experiments with 
FImail seemed to show, and I believe PCelm is the same. Is this correct?

I do remember reading that a certain program (the PM-Demon Pegasus gateway?) 
was broken by a change at Demon's end, when they stopped sending 2 newlines 
between messages.

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From: Dave Scott <dave@roborat.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: unread mail
Date: 1996/07/05
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