Bad interaction between Smail3, VM5.33 and odd messages

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From: Ian Jackson
Date: Sun, 09 May 1993 12:30

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If I send a message without a trailing newline using Smail 3.1.28 it
causes the usual blank line separating messages in a BSD-style mailbox
to get lost.

Rmail handled this OK; it still recognised the messages as distinct.

However VM 5.33 spots the missing blank line and decides that the
From_ line isn't the start of a new message. This results in the next
message being glued onto the end of the odd one.

I don't know whether this is stricly speaking a bug in Smail or a bug
in VM, but IMHO both programs should do their best to fix it up. Ie
Smail should add an extra newline, and VM shouldn't require the blank
line to be present.

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From: ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson)
Subject: Bad interaction between Smail3, VM5.33 and odd messages
Message-ID: <1993May10.100727.25517@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
To: bugs-smail@veritas.com
Summary: Messages without a trailing newline are mishandled
Keywords: smail3, trailing newsline
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Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 12:30:06 GMT
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