On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 20:24, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 11:51 -0400, 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
> 
> Wouldn't thins be Yet Another Good Reason To Use Maildir?

Yes, but most MDA's have an option to turn on/off the Content-length
thing.

BTW, I was of the belief that Content-length was a SysV thing, which
Solaris inherited.  Is this truly a solaris-only thing?

-- 
Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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