Re: [Evolution] Evo splitting messages in odd ways



On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:24, Ron Johnson wrote:
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 11:51 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
The messages are probably being split on "From ..." lines as the BSD
mbox format defines lines beginning with "From " to be message
delimiters (and this is the format that Evolution uses since it is the
most widely used).

If your MTA host is running Solaris or some other system that instead
uses the similar-but-not-at-all-compatable mbox format that SunOS came
up with (that of Content-Length headers), then this sort of thing will
happen.

You can read more about this here:
http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html

Wouldn't thins be Yet Another Good Reason To Use Maildir?

Yes, but most MDA's have an option to turn on/off the Content-length
thing.

BTW, I was of the belief that Content-length was a SysV thing, which
Solaris inherited.  Is this truly a solaris-only thing?

-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <strombrg dcs nac uci edu>

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