On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 02:07:05PM +0000, Steve Kennedy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > So, my message would have landed in Steve's moderator mailbox. Part of
> > his mail system reacted poorly to the control characters in the
> > message following and didn't separate it out as a separate
> > message. When Steve went to hand-approve the message, he used mutt,
> > which we've found doesn't show the corrupted bits on the end.
> 
> Qmail into mbox and mutt ... then piped to majordomo's approve
> mechanism.

Aha! For what it's worth (since you've already got qmail there -- this
isn't intended to be an MTA religious war), Maildirs guarantee that
that sort of corruption (characteristic of mbox) can never happen.

  -Rich

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