"J.R. van Ossenbruggen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, (this is probably a FAQ, could not find it though...)
>I'm having problems with email messages where the body contains lines
>that start with the word "From". Inc is splitting these messages up.
>Is this a bug in inc or am I doing something wrong? Could anybody
>give me a hint?
The lines are probably starting "From ". You are doing something
wrong. Your mailbox is not supposed to have such lines.
>Thanks,
> Jacco
>PS: I'm currently running Redhat 6.1, nmh-1.0-2.
> The problem does not occur when using inc on IRIX (MH 6.8.3).
Most likely the MH 6.8.3 has Casper Dik's patch to use
"Content-Length:" for identifying the end of a message. This is
correct for SysV, such as IRIX. But linux does not use
"Content-Length:". Instead, the mail delivery agent (usually
procmail) prepends ">" to any line beginning with "From ", so that
the only "From " lines are the message separators.
You probably copied the mailbox from IRIX to linux. You should not
do that, since the two systems do not have completely compatible
mailbox formats.
-NWR
