[10027] in Athena Bugs
Post office is dividing messages on "From " lines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Oct 25 22:27:44 1992
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 92 22:27:36 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: postmaster@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
I just sent a mail message to jik@athena.mit.edu with this in its body
(all lines here are prefixed with '>', even though they weren't in the
message I sent, for reasons I will explain in a minute):
>From jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU Sun Oct 25 22:19:14 1992
>Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by e40-po.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02010; Sun, 25 Oct 92 22:19:18 EST
>Received: from PIT-MANAGER.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP
> id AA01886; Sun, 25 Oct 92 22:19:17 EST
>Received: by pit-manager.MIT.EDU (5.61/2.1JIK)
> id <AA02729@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>; Sun, 25 Oct 92 22:19:14 -0500
>Date: Sun, 25 Oct 92 22:19:14 -0500
>From: Jonathan I. Kamens <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
>Message-Id: <9210260319.AA02729@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
>To: jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU
>Status: O
>
>frep
I verified that my mail was being delivered as a single SMTP message
by doing "mail -v jik < filename", where "filename" was the file
containing the text quoted above.
I then connected to my post office using the "pop" program in the sipb
locker, and determined that the post office had broken the message I
sent into *two* messages, the second commencing at the line starting
with "From jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU", with that line removed.
The post offices should *not* be doing this. It is not a violation of
either SMTP or POP for a message line to be in the format that is used
as a message separator in Berkeley mail. If the POPper *can't* deal
with lines in that format, then the program that sendmail invokes to
insert messages into the POP mailbox should be smart enough to change
those lines so that they are prefixed with '>'.
--> Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
Member, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
