Jeff, Thanks for that pointer. As it turns out, the user who was also now showing the symptoms had recently moved his mail spool from an old SGI/IRIX host to my mail spool host, which is running Solaris. I just checked the sendmail.cf file on the Sun box and found that it does appear to be using the Content-Length method rather than the "From " method to delineate messages. I'll change this option and observe the behavior, but this explanation does seem to tie up all the loose ends I was holding. I expect this will fix it. Thanks for that insight.
-norm On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 11:51, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > The messages are probably being split on "From ..." lines as the BSD > mbox format defines lines beginning with "From " to be message > delimiters (and this is the format that Evolution uses since it is the > most widely used). > > If your MTA host is running Solaris or some other system that instead > uses the similar-but-not-at-all-compatable mbox format that SunOS came > up with (that of Content-Length headers), then this sort of thing will > happen. > > You can read more about this here: > http://www.jwz.org/doc/content-length.html > > Jeff > > On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 09:47, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote: > > I know all the traffic has been on the 2.0 release, but I and some of my > > users are seeing a strange problem in the 1.4.5 release of Evolution > > that comes with RHEL 3, and I'm hoping someone here can shed some light. > > > > Every so often Evo seems to split an incoming message in two. The > > symptoms are usually a message with the bottom half missing, sometimes > > right after the headers, sometimes further into the body, and a second > > message in my inbox with no subject, no sender, and no date in the > > message listing pane, and when I display it it invariably looks like the > > tail end of some other message. > > > > Evo is apparently splitting a single incoming e-mail at some > > inappropriate point and turning it into two separate messages in the > > message list. In my case, most of these messages seem to be mailing > > list messages which I have filtered into separate folders, with the top > > part of a message going to a folder and the remainder ending up as a "no > > subject" message in my inbox, so I don't always know if they would show > > up sequentially in an inbox otherwise. > > > > Mail here is delivered locally to a mailhub machine whose > > /var/spool/mail directory is NFS mounted to clients like mine. I have > > my evo mail account set up with a server type set as "Local Delivery", > > meaning evo periodically checks the NFS mounted spool directory and > > moves any messages found there to my inbox under ~/evolution/local. I > > mention this since it seems the likely place for where the process might > > be broken. > > > > I understand that 1.4.5 has just recently been eclipsed, but maybe > > someone could confirm my observations or suggest a workaround, or maybe > > someone has found that this is still an issue in 2.0. > > > > Thanks for any input or advice, > > > > -norm > > > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution -- Norman Joseph, System Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] IC|XC Concurrent Technologies Corporation 814/269.2633 --+-- Federal Systems Group/IT & Systems Engineering NI|KA *** Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle *** _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
