[10029] in Athena Bugs
Re: Post office is dividing messages on "From " lines
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Coppeto)
Mon Oct 26 07:47:50 1992
To: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>, postmaster@MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 26 Oct 92 00:05:15 -0500.
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 92 07:47:37 GMT
From: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>
Actually, the problem is the result of combining a berkeley popper
which uses "From <string> <date>" as a message boundary with MH's spop
which uses ^A^A^A^A as a message boundary. When we moved to the
berkeley popper I hacked it to recognize ^A^A^A^A with the expectation
that we would eventually phase out spop, which is one of these
projects that has been getting very little time.
My opinion has been that it doesn't appear to be a very visible
problem (real people tend not to take files from /usr/spool/mail and
send them around) so the priority kept falling short in favor of other
problems. I've modified the development sources to have popper ignore
the line altogether but won't have time to test it this week.. but if
someone else who is motivated to make the change has some time...
- Tom
