[10028] in Athena Bugs
Re: Post office is dividing messages on "From " lines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Mon Oct 26 00:05:33 1992
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 00:05:15 -0500
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
Cc: postmaster@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jonathan I. Kamens's message of Sun, 25 Oct 92 22:27:36 -0500,
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 92 22:27:36 -0500
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
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 '>'.
This is a known bug in the post office delivery program --- I've
mentioned to Tom that he really should fix it, since it happens to me
fairly frequently, and it's really annoying. :-) So it should be on his
queue of things to do already, although I don't know when he'll have
time to get to it. Tom?
- Ted
