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Re: VM 5.32 problem with extra "From" lines

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From: Scott K. Hutton
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1992 22:23
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Kyle Jones writes:

   Scott K. Hutton writes:
    > I've received at least a couple messages which were split because they
    > contained a line that begins with "From".

   "\nFrom " is consdiered to be a message separator.  It's the job
   of the mail delivery program to quote separators that occur in
   the body of messages.  By the time the mail reader get hold of
   the message it is too late.

That's what I always  thought, but I've  noted at least two situations
where  VM  is  doing  interesting  things after  the  MDA  deals  with
messages--the one I cited above, and another situation where

  -stuff

gets turned into

  - -stuff

I've only noticed the second situation where people have replied to my
messages.  I can't seem to duplicate the problem  (might just be a bad
mailer out there on our campus).

I've had the "From" problem happen twice in the last two days.

-Scott
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From: shutton@fokker.union.indiana.edu (Scott K. Hutton)
Subject: Re: VM 5.32 problem with extra "From" lines
In-Reply-To: kyle@crystal.wonderworks.com's message of Tue, 8 Dec 1992 14:28:33 -0500
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