Jonathan --

...and then Jonathan Irving said...
% On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:15:33AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
% > Jonathan --
% > 
% > BTW, the real mutt-users address is above.  What is this gbnet thing,
% > anyway?
% 
% that's where majordomo thinks it lives.  i guess mutt.org
% may be an alias to gbnet.org.

Thanks.  At least a couple of people have filled me in now, and it's
still hard to believe.  I wonder if mutt.org should move to *my* site,
where we can run mailing list software right ;-)


% 
% > % contain the mbox 'from' line, mutt interprets them as
% > 
% > More specifically, they contain an unescaped '^From ' line (yes, including
% > the space) because dtmail likes to use and honor the Content-Length:
...
% > 
% > Well, I recall that there is a flag in dtmail that lets you turn off this
% > silly behavior (no doubt stated as "crippling" dtmail, but that's their
% > opinion), so if these are your messages, you're fine.  Other than that,
% > formail is probably your best bet aside from a perl script to go thru
% > and change ^From_ to ^>From_ when not in *real* headers.
% 
% can't find the flag (not that i looked far), but i fixed it
% with a sed script in my .forward, before siphoning off to
% mailboxes.

Good enough, and easy since you're working with one message at a time.


% 
% thanks for the tip.

Happy to help!


% 
% > % any idea how to stop this from happening?
% > 
% > Well, you could always dump any messages from anyone who uses dtmail ;-)
% 
% check my email address;-)  sadly, not an option.

Oh, I saw it, all right...  That was part of the jab from a die-hard Sun
bigot like me :-)


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