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From: gregg@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (gregg.g.wonderly)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: binmail vs MMDF mail file format
Message-ID: <1597@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 7 Jul 89 15:13:20 GMT
References: <8887@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <8887@chinet.chi.il.us>, by les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell):
> AT&T's PMX mailer products include a new /bin/mail that uses
> Content-Type: and Content-Length: headers to avoid the problem.

This is just plain gross!  Last I knew, the MTA was the one attaching
this information.  What is the poor MUA (for their /bin/mail, the
asnwer is...  If the text following Content-length bytes is not "From",
seek back to Content-length and do normal "look for the From line"
processing see, great solution :-() going to do with a file that has
been altered by an unknowing editor (like vi or emacs)?  Once again
another format has been chosen that absolutely solves nothing!

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