Re: [Evolution] Evo splitting messages in odd ways

[Alex S Moore <asmoore edge net>]

On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:25 -0400, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:
> Thanks for that pointer.  As it turns out, the user who was also now
> showing the symptoms had recently moved his mail spool from an old
> SGI/IRIX host to my mail spool host, which is running Solaris.  I just
> checked the sendmail.cf file on the Sun box and found that it does
> appear to be using the Content-Length method rather than the "From "
> method to delineate messages.  I'll change this option and observe the
> behavior, but this explanation does seem to tie up all the loose ends I
> was holding.  I expect this will fix it.  Thanks for that insight.

P.S.  There is a configure option for evolution to turn off this
behavior.  From my experiences, building evolution with that option will
fix the problem.  I think it is --with-broken-spool=yes

The evolution package at blastwave.org is built correctly for Solaris
and Sun's sendmail.

Alex