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Subject: Re: Retrieved archives are 'bursted' into my mailbox
From: "Philip Douglass" <philipd @ sirs . com>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:49:28 -0500
To: <tibbs @ hpc . uh . edu>
Cc: <majordomo-users @ GreatCircle . COM>
References: <03ad01be7d43$6bccb050$609a82d0@sirs.com> <ufawvzubv1s.fsf@epithumia.math.uh.edu>

Microsoft strikes again! Outlook Express 5 is apparently ignoring the
Content-Length header. Thanks for the tip.

> PD> Is this behavior being caused by Majordomo, or is
> PD> it my sendmail setup?
>
> It is your local setup.  It could be Sendmail, it could be your mail
> reader.  Majordomo just sends out a file which has embedded lines which
> look exactly like the lines which separate messages in an mbox file.  The
> receiver is responsible for making sure that those lines don't confuse
> anything, either by escaping 'From ' in the body or by adding a
> Content-Length: header.  If the latter, the user's client is responsible
> for understanding it and not breaking the messages at improper places.




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