On Sun, 12 May 2002, JT wrote:

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> On Sun, 12 May 2002, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > Ok, the line :
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> > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > IS WRONG in the RFC822 mean. this is right :
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> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> David, there are *two* seperate things here.
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> The line you are talking about 'From:' is an RFC822 header, yes.  It is
> supplied COMPLETELY by the client/MUA used to send the mail initially.
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> The line that I and Trish and Gerritt are talking about is the 'From '
> line and it is the ENVELOPE SMTP transaction header.  It is created by ALL
> unix mailers and PREPENDED to the mail BEFORE that mail is delivered to
> any local mailbox, or pipe or handed off to anything other than another
> MTA.   THIS line is what is required for stored mails to be considered to
> be in Berkeley MBOX format.   This is what XMail is not adding to the mail
> before it hands it off to a local pipe.  This is solely an issue with the
> XMail MTA and not an issue with Listar/Ecartis.   You can fix this however
> you like, either by fixing your MTA (which I strongly recommend), or by
> adding something inbetween your MTA and Ecartis which adds this line
> correctly.

why should XMail add an MBOX specific line when it does not use the MBOX
format ? XMail uses Maildir on Unix :

http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/maildir.html

why should it add a "From ..." line that would be added to the message by
breaking the headers section ? the correct fix is the econv.c filter
program not XMail. i'm just curious, how does ecartis plan to work with
Windows MTAs that do not give a damn about MBOX ? how does it work with
qmail ( that uses Maildir ) ?



- Davide


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