When the attachment arrived at your work address, it was probably just
appended to your mail spool. A lot of mail agents, including mutt, simply
look for a the header:
>From <blah blah>
in order to determine the start of a new message. Assuming that the
attachment was a plain-text file, mutt just interpreted all the "From"s in
there as the start of a new message.
A safer way of sending a file such as this would be to gzip it up and send
it along.
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 08:20:06AM +0200, Marc Silver wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> I think I've stumbled across an interesting bug in mutt for Solaris.
> I could be wrong, but that's why I'm posting to this list first... :)
>
> Last night, I sent an email to my work email address, and with it,
> I attached my /var/mail/$USER file. This morning, upon coming into
> work, I found that the mail I sent had been stripped of it's attachment,
> and that the contents had been added to my existing /var/mail/$USER
> file.... is this a feature, because as far as I'm concerned, it's
> a bug that could potentially cause some damage.
>
> Here is some info on the mutt client I'm using at work;
>
> Mutt 1.0pre3i (1999-09-25)
> Copyright (C) 1996-9 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
>
> System: SunOS 5.6 [using slang 10003]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> -HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
> -USE_IMAP -USE_POP +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP2
>-BUFFY_SIZE
> -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS
> SENDMAIL="/usr/lib/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/mail"
> SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
> ISPELL="/usr/local/bin/ispell"
> _PGPPATH="/usr/local/bin/pgp"
> _PGPV2PATH="/usr/local/bin/pgp"
> To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> Any help on this would be much appreciated.
> Cheers,
> Marc
>
>
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