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sendmail/rmail-input compatibility in Epoch 4.0p2

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From: Arnold Smith
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 17:40
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I've been experiencing an odd problem with sendmail in Epoch 4.0p2 that I
didn't have with Epoch 3.2.  I use epoch to send most of my mail, and I
have mail-archive-file-name set non-nil (to the name of a file in fact) in
order to retain copies of all messages I send.  Since installing 4.0p2,
outgoing messages continue to be put into the specified file, but in a
format that (rmail-convert-to-babyl-format) doesn't recognize as Unix mail
messages.  The result is that if I examine my outgoing-messages file using
rmail-input, all messages sent using 4.0p2 appear to be concatenated
together as a single long message.

The only difference between the old and new headers that I can see appears
to be the addition of a time zone field.  If no one else has encountered
this problem, I'll look more closely and see if I can find out exactly what's
going on.

Old (3.2) format message header:

    From smith Thu Jul  9 15:46:27 1992
    To: dmc
    Subject: /usr/local

New (4.0p2) format message header:

    From smith Mon Jul 13 11:17:03 1992 BST
    To: manny
    Subject: in tomorrow

The system environment is SunOS 4.1.2 on a SPARCstation (IPX), running
OpenWindows 3.
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From: smith@cam.sri.com (Arnold Smith)
Subject: sendmail/rmail-input compatibility in Epoch 4.0p2
Message-ID: <9208051740.AA05638@gwydir.cam.sri.com>
Sender: daemon@cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 17:40:19 GMT
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