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Re: sendmail 8.9.1: line breaks in headers; mailing to files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Fri Nov 6 05:44:13 1998
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:45:22 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981105232030.00801660@fmol.5sigcmd.army.mil>; from Anthony E. Greene on Thu, Nov 05, 1998 at 11:20:30PM +0100
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Anthony E. Greene writes:
> At 14:31 1998-11-05 -0500, Alex Vorobiev wrote:
> >migrated 8.8.5 -> 8.9.1a
> >
> >Q1: new version inserts line breaks in headers like 'Received:', if
> > the line is longer than a certain ## of characters. this is breaking
> > my custom scripts that are used to the old format - all on one line
> > header. is there a way to tell sendmail to stop inserting line breaks?
>
> You might consider altering your scripts to allow for this RFC822-legal
> behavior. Any header line that starts with whitespace is part of the
> previous line.
To that end you might want to have a look at formail -c (formail is part of
the procmail package, man formail for details), which might be of help
there. Mind you, I haven't tried it myself, though.
Thomas
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