On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 11:11 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > 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.
Yes, but... :)
if you used Maildir, you wouldn't have to worry about whether or
not Content-length was used by the MTA or not, right?
SysAdmin: "Doctor, I keep getting a headache when I bang a hammer
against my head. What should I do?"
Doctor: "Stop banging your head with a hammer!"
(It's extreme to be funny, not because I think mbox is that bad.)
> BTW, I was of the belief that Content-length was a SysV thing, which
> Solaris inherited. Is this truly a solaris-only thing?
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Remember when environmental doom-and-gloomers said that it would
take 10 years to put out the 750 post-GW1 oil fires? Yet they
were all out in 6 months.
Remember when environmental doom-and-gloomers said in ~1975 that
the oil would run out in 50 years?
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