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In <1993May10.100727.25517@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> ijackson@nyx.cs.du.edu (Ian Jackson) writes:
>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.

VM needs to change its algorithm.  Among other things, SVR4 mail uses
a Content-Length: header to specify the mail body-length and DOES NOT
put blank lines between messages.

I fixed this for VM 4.xx, but when I got VM 5.33, the code changed so
much that I need to go back and redo it and re-submit it to Kyle.

Basically, you need to change vm-build-message-list to set itself up
at the start of a message and then search forward for the start of the
next message and throw out all of the ``separator'' searching since it
doesn't generalize beyond the limited world of old berkeley systems
and MH.

/Joe