On Sun, 29 May 2016, Rick Thomas wrote: > Package: procmail > Version: 3.22-24 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > If procmail processes a mail with body containing a plaintext attachment that > has a line > that begins with the string "From " it seems to think this is a separator > between mails. > It winds up splitting the original mail into two parts and filing each as a > separate mail > item. > > This can happen when the attachment is a mail item that has not had the > proper quoting > for lines beginning with "From ". I have attached such an email to this > bugreport.
procmail does not split anything unless explicitly told. In fact, it is usually "formail -s" who split emails, not procmail. > There needs to be some way of telling procmail that it will receive input one > email item > at a time, (as when being fed by fetchmail) so the line-begins-with-From > processing is > not necessary. And there is a way indeed, which is to use procmail alone, not "formail -s procmail". Your report says "If procmail processes a mail". What do you mean exactly by "processes a mail"? Could you please be more explicit? A sample email is good, but the report is incomplete if you don't tell me what I'm supposed to do with the email. Thanks.
