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Subject: Re: Archive2.pl & Envelope Sender
From: Leslie Mikesell <les @ Mcs . Net>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:10:20 -0600 (CST)
To: tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Cc: fold @ mail . bcpl . lib . md . us, majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <ufa4tdudlb9.fsf@sina.hpc.uh.edu> from "Jason L Tibbitts III" at Mar 29, 97 11:02:18 pm

> CO> Some subscribers complain that when they "get" an archive file, it
> CO> comes through as lots of individual messages rather than all in one.
> CO> Apparently Sendmail (theirs or ours) seens those "From" lines and
> CO> complete headers, so treats each message in the archive as an
> CO> individual message.
>  
> Well, their mail delivery agent is either supposed to escape the From
> lines, or add a Content-Length: header in the mail as it delivers it.  If
> it's doing neither, then they have something that needs fixing.

The place you see this is where the system delivery agent uses the
Content-Length: approach but the mail reading program doesn't.  Sometimes
it can be fixed if you have sources...

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com



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