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On Sun 11 Dec 2022 at 18:56:24 (-0600), Greg Marks wrote:
> Dear David,
Thanks, but please keep replies on list so others can see
solutions or join in with suggestions.
Rather than appending a piece of free-standing text to the
rest of the email
On Sat 10 Dec 2022 at 20:45:37 (-0500), pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:49:54 +1100
> David wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 19:05, wrote:
> > > On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:39:34 -0600 Greg Marks
> > > wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > > I don't know the RFCs involved, but I'
On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:49:54 +1100
David wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 19:05, wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:39:34 -0600 Greg Marks
> > wrote:
[snip]
>
> > I don't know the RFCs involved, but I'm guessing they mandate or
> > suggest this treatment.
>
> Here's a reference describing 'mb
On Sat, 10 Dec 2022 at 19:05, wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:39:34 -0600 Greg Marks wrote:
> > In a recent instance, the body of the e-mail contained a line
> > beginning with the word "From"; the sendmail program prefixed the
> > line with the character ">" and a space (evidently interpreting
>
On Sat 10 Dec 2022 at 08:24:05 (+0200), Teemu Likonen wrote:
> * 2022-12-09 20:39:34-0600, Greg Marks wrote:
> >
> > I occasionally send e-mail from the command line via Postfix, using a
> > script containing the command
> >
> >/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f -t < file
> > Is there a way to tell
I remember some e-mail programs automatically add an extra space in
front of a From in the message body if any line starts with From.
Probably Thunderbird is one of them.
to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 08:36:39AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Technically, it's th
> On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 02:57:42AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com
> wrote:
> > You don't want to do this. Consider an MUA which stores your mail in
> > "mbox" format-- one email right after another in one file. The
> > delimiter is a line which starts at the left margin with the word
> > "From".
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 08:36:39AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
[...]
> Technically, it's the 5-character sequence "From " (including the space)
> that matters in mbox formats. If you begin a line with "Fromage" [...]
I thusly propose to drop the '>' escaping of "From" and change every From
at a
On Sat, Dec 10, 2022 at 02:57:42AM -0500, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> You don't want to do this. Consider an MUA which stores your mail in
> "mbox" format-- one email right after another in one file. The
> delimiter is a line which starts at the left margin with the word
> "From".
Technically
Hi,
pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> [...] any other line which starts with "From" must
> be "armored". And the way you do that is to precede it with "> ".
> I don't know the RFCs involved, but I'm guessing they mandate or
> suggest this treatment.
It does not look like being fully specified by a
On Fri, 9 Dec 2022 20:39:34 -0600
Greg Marks wrote:
> I occasionally send e-mail from the command line via Postfix, using a
> script containing the command
>
>/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f -t < file
>
> In a recent instance, the body of the e-mail contained a line
> beginning with the word "F
* 2022-12-09 20:39:34-0600, Greg Marks wrote:
> Is there a way to tell the Postfix sendmail command not to alter any
> such lines ["From" lines] in the body of the message?
I can't answer your actual question but I think Postfix and other
"sendmails" do the right thing. In my opinion you shouldn'
I occasionally send e-mail from the command line via Postfix, using a
script containing the command
/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f -t < file
In a recent instance, the body of the e-mail contained a line beginning
with the word "From"; the sendmail program prefixed the line with the
character ">"
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