Re: cannot send mail from balsa (rh linux 7.2)

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Mon, 31 December 03:44 James McPherson - TSG Engineer wrote:
> 
> On 31 Dec 2001, 02:34:19 PM Duane Douglas wrote:
> > At 01:53 PM 12/31/2001 +1100, James McPherson - TSG Engineer wrote:
> >
> [snip]
> 
> > here's the text of my outbox:
> >
> >  From ddouglas@acedsl.com Sun Dec 30 21:08:31 2001
> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:08:31 -0500
> > From: Duane Douglas <ddouglas@acedsl.com>
> > To: ddouglas@acedsl.com
> > Subject: test
> > Message-ID: <20011230210831.C13512@grumpy.dog-media.com>
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.7
> > Status: RO
> > Content-Length: 5
> > Lines: 1
> >
> > test
> >
> >  From ddouglas@acedsl.com Sun Dec 30 21:40:58 2001
> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:40:58 -0500
> > From: Duane Douglas <ddouglas@acedsl.com>
> > To: ddouglas@acedsl.com
> > Subject: test
> > Message-ID: <20011230214058.A13758@grumpy.dog-media.com>
> > Mime-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.7
> > Status: RO
> > Content-Length: 5
> > Lines: 1
> >
> > test
> 
> 
> I'm not sure that you are allowed to have the first From line starting with
> a space character (maybe one of the others on the list can advise). No
> matter,

The first from line is *not* part of the message.  It's part of the berkeley 
mbox storage format.  This should *never* be present in a message transferred 
via an MTA, see RFC 2822.

Regards,
Brian Stafford