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- From: nitin@kailash (Nitin Kaulavkar)
- Subject: Re: Problem with mailx in ESIX 4.0.4
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.100800.13376@cse.iitb.ernet.in>
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- Organization: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
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- References: <1992Dec15.154511.27086@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 10:08:00 GMT
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- hmc@cs.hw.ac.uk (Hugh Conner) writes:
- : We have several 486 based systems running ESIX 4.0.4. When using the mailx
- : command to read mail messages a problem occurs if the first word on a line
- : of the message is 'from'. I notice that when sending mail if the first word
- : is 'From' with a capital F it replaces it with '>From' which I assume is meant
- : to stop the mail reader treating it as the start of a new message. This does
- : happen with 'from' and although /bin/mail reads the message ok, mailx
- : decides that the line starting 'from' is a new message. Does anyone know a
- : patch for this or should I just compile a decent mail reader and scrap mailx.
-
- This indeed is one of the known problems with mailx. There is one more
- problem with mailx while reading mail. If any of the mail messages have
- non-text byte, then the mailx reading goes berserk. It for the reasons I
- fail to fathom, appends the mail portion after that funny character at the
- end of the mail box and the effect is that you see your mailbox growing
- EXPONENTIALLY. You neither can delete the mail message which has this funny
- byte nor delete the mail messages after that as mailx fail to recognize the
- mail boubdaries.
-
- No easy patch I suppose. We have switched to MH and we are very happy
- with it.
- MH source :
-
- via anonymous ftp:
- FTP Site: IP Address: Path/File Name: Size:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- ftp.ics.uci.edu [128.195.1.1] mh/mh-6.7.tar.Z 1.6MB
- louie.udel.edu [128.175.1.3] portal/mh-6.7.tar.Z 1.6MB
- ftp.uu.net [137.39.1.9] mail/mh/tar/mh-6.7.tar.Z-split/ 256K*7
- README, part01, ..., part07
-
- Cheers,
- nitin
-
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- Nitin Kaulavkar, SysAdm, <nitin@cse.iitb.ernet.in>
- S/W and Computing Laboratory, Dept of C.S.E. ,IIT, Bombay 400 076.
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