[98034] in RedHat Linux List
Re: sendmail 8.9.1: line breaks in headers; mailing to files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Vorobiev)
Fri Nov 6 10:19:14 1998
From: Alex Vorobiev <sasha@forum.swarthmore.edu>
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Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 10:18:37 -0500 (EST)
Cc: staff@forum.swarthmore.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981106104522.B26320@adbvdesign.analog.com> from "Thomas Ribbrock \" at Nov 6, 98 10:45:22 am
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Thoman,
Thanks so much! Your solution takes care of the problem.
--sasha
> 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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