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 In article <5jdf4g$7u@xciv.demon.co.uk>
  paul@xciv.org (Paul Civati) wrote:-

>In article <52802764_000003_OASIS_NEWS@the-gap.demon.co.uk>,
>        gary@the-gap.demon.co.uk (Gary Priest) writes:
>
>> I did see the 'From ' line and thought maybe that was the case. But how
>> would it work if the body of the email had a line starting 'From '? That
>> could happen and how would you know that it wasn't the start of the next
>> email?
>
>Well, the 'From ' should be at the start of each section of headers,
>and some MTAs will adjust any 'From ' in the body of a message to have
>a '>' pre-pended just to be safe.

I've just tested this and either Demon or NOS? Do indeed prefix the
offending line with '>'!! I'm a bit confused by MTA, what is it?
So I can go ahead with NOS support in my new program POPwatch now, thanks!!

>> Where are the control A's used? Is it just on Demon's server? Surely if I
>> used Control A's, NOS wouldn't understand them?
>
>Now I've confused the situation. :)  I meant local mailboxes on MMDF
>systems, it's not applicable to any of this, I just thought you may
>be interested.

I'm always interested in this sort of thing. I've only been on the net for
18months and I'm still learning a lot :-)
 
Cheers, Gary



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