On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 12:25 -0400, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote: > 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. > P.S. There is a configure option for evolution to turn off this behavior. From my experiences, building evolution with that option will fix the problem. I think it is --with-broken-spool=yes
Cool, nice to see this option actually and still works. I never had a solaris box to test it on.
We should probably make it a run-time option rather than a compile time one at some point, although it would be so much better if solaris just fixed their sendmail.
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