On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:11 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:
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.htmlWouldn'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.
Yes, but... :)
if you used Maildir, you wouldn't have to worry about whether or
not Content-length was used by the MTA or not, right?
SysAdmin: "Doctor, I keep getting a headache when I bang a hammer
against my head. What should I do?"
Doctor: "Stop banging your head with a hammer!"
(It's extreme to be funny, not because I think mbox is that bad.)
BTW, I was of the belief that Content-length was a SysV thing, which Solaris inherited. Is this truly a solaris-only thing?
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