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From: irene
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 1991 15:19

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Can anyone help me with a sendmail headers problem please?

I thought sendmail would assume that the headers
finished after the first blank line, but it is not
doing so in one implementation I am running.

This is a pain because I am using sendmail to carry
Uniplex (proprietory office automation system) mail, and 
FORWARDED uniplex mail has some extra lines  - which
should be just part of the text - which just happen to include:

     From     : host>user  - wierd Uniplex address style which
                             should never be allowed near a
                             normal message transfer system!

Sendmail is trying to parse what it thinks is an extra
RFC822 header line, even though the blank line between this
and the REAL headers still remains, and is making a terrible mess!

Any ideas?  Is it possible to configure Sendmail to only
accept one From:  line?  Or to insist the blank line precedes
text?  Or to somehow get it to do something sensible with ">" -
could be a problem with <comments> though....

thanks,
Irene Hassell
British Telecom
irene@uk.co.bt.buzzard

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