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Re: Help with the format of NOS email files

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From: Paul Civati
Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 00:00
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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.

> 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.

-Paul-
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Subject: Re: Help with the format of NOS email files
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