On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tres Hofmeister wrote: > I upgraded a potato box to woody recently. With the current > sendmail (8.12.1-2) and procmail (3.21.20011028.3.15.2-2), it looks > like the mail delivery agent (MDA) is sensible-mda, which seems to > use procmail as a first choice. > > What I'm noticing is that messages in my mailbox now have a > second, escaped "From " header line, e.g.: > > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Nov 14 11:58:18 2001 > >From tres Wed Nov 14 11:58:18 2001 > > This causes various odd problems, the most obvious and annoying > being that it mostly breaks Mutt's "bounce" function--the message > is basically mangled at the receiving end, with everything from the > ">From " line forward moved into the body of the message. Yech... > > Removing procmail solves the problem, but I need procmail for > mail filtering. I've noticed that there's a "wishlist" bug #119104 > against procmail which seems to reference this problem, but it doesn't > offer a solution. I suppose I could reconfigure sendmail to force > using a different MDA... Any suggestions?
Two suggestions: * Use a different MTA. I use exim+procmail here without problems. * File a "severity: serious" bug against sendmail. It seems that procmail escapes "From " lines because there is more than one of them. I wonder if RFC-822 allows it.