Re: What happened to "From "????

2005-07-09 Thread Hal MacArgle
Greetings: Last time around both your addresses bounced. Let's see what this one does.. On 07-07, Peter wrote: > > Excellent pages to learn about how to filter with procmail even for our aged > brains: > > http://www.beedub.com/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/27./29 Directed mostly to MH Ma

Re: What happened to "From "????

2005-07-07 Thread Peter
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 09:33:46 -0400 Hal MacArgle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Forgot to mentioned, checked in some old mail box when I used pine and surely there is the From_ --- Peter - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: What happened to "From "????

2005-07-07 Thread Peter
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 09:33:46 -0400 Hal MacArgle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK another enlightenment.. /var/mail/heisspf will also be > mirrored, exactly, as /var/spool/mail/heisspf... But you are not > using that.. OK ls -l /var/mail -> spool/mail No, it's not used with my setup.

Re: What happened to "From "????

2005-07-06 Thread Hal MacArgle
On 07-06, Peter wrote: Hal: > > One final query: Can you invoke: env in any of your > > userspace or even root and tell me what the variable $MAIL reports? > > For years the "normal" has always been /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME.. > > Will be interesting to see what your working box reports.. > >

Re: What happened to "From "????

2005-07-06 Thread Peter
> On 07-05, Peter wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using slack 10.1, kernel 2.4.29, sendmail-8.13.3 and getmail 4.2.5 and > > all the mail has the From: ,however, none has From_ . In fact I have never > > seen that. On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 08:53:08 -0400 Hal MacArgle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: What happened to "From "???

2005-07-05 Thread Hal MacArgle
Hold the phone; I found a fix or, at least, a work around.. Apparently default getmail-4.2.5 wants a QMail type Maildir to work with. The thread will show that I tried all kinds of ways to make getmail NOT change the From_ to From: -- to no avail up till now.. Re-reading the getmail docs, more c

Re: What happened to "From "???

2005-07-05 Thread Hal MacArgle
On 07-04, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Hal MacArgle wrote: > [...] > >>3. Most interesting ... in an actual, downloaded mail file, is the "From > >>" line present or not? (Open it with vi or whatever text editor you > >>like, and simply take a look.) If not, is there *any* line that looks > >>like a

Re: What happened to "From "????

2005-07-05 Thread Hal MacArgle
On 07-05, Peter wrote: > Hi, > > I am using slack 10.1, kernel 2.4.29, sendmail-8.13.3 and getmail 4.2.5 and > all the mail has the From: ,however, none has From_ . In fact I have never > seen that. Greetings again Peter and thanks much for the input.. I have additional suggest

Re: What happened to "From "???

2005-07-04 Thread Ray Olszewski
Hal MacArgle wrote: [...] 3. Most interesting ... in an actual, downloaded mail file, is the "From " line present or not? (Open it with vi or whatever text editor you like, and simply take a look.) If not, is there *any* line that looks like a message delimiter in there? If there is, please pos

Re: What happened to "From "???

2005-07-04 Thread Hal MacArgle
On 07-03, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Hal MacArgle wrote: > >Greetings: Going bonkers with this after many reliable years of eMail > >with the so called Unix From_ line; the envelope address; first line > >of every message. (Or it used to be) > > > >Trying to upgrade to Slack10.1, 2.4.29, for other reas

Re: What happened to "From "????

2005-07-04 Thread Hal MacArgle
On 07-04, Richard Adams wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2005 19:23, Hal MacArgle wrote: > > Greetings: Going bonkers with this after many reliable years of eMail > > with the so called Unix From_ line; the envelope address; first line > > of every message. (Or it used to be) > > > > Trying to upgrade to