Scott Lawrence wrote:
>
> There are a great many people here using VMS mail, one component
> of which adds a date-time stamp into the From field of a mail header
> such that I receive header lines like this:
>
> From: node::user (Real U. Name 01-Oct-1993 1316 -0400)
That's absolutely disgusting... What do they think the Date field is for,
exactly?
> Any hints on how I can recognize these and prevent them getting added
> to my database (or translate them into "???" or something)?
I suppose the easiest way would be to put a special case into mail-extr so
that it realizes that names matching that pattern are not names at all.
-- Jamie