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From: GPWRMDH@gp.govt.nz (Martin D. Hunt)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: add file for VMSmail extracted files broken?
Message-ID: <302@gp.govt.nz>
Date: 13 Sep 89 14:46:40 GMT
References: <8909070205.AA07083@vrdxhq.verdix.com>
Organization: Government Printing Office, Wellington, New Zealand
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In article <8909070205.AA07083@vrdxhq.verdix.com>, sdroppers%PBS.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Seton R. Droppers) writes:
> I have noticed that when I attempt to add a group of mail messages that have
> been extracted from VMS mail that the ADD FILE function of news does not
> recognize the the VMS mail headers for the first message that has been extracted
> into the file.  The sender is marked as "unknown" and the subject is marked as
> "<NONE>".  We are running news 5.8A.  Is this a know problem and are there any
> workarounds?
>      
> Seton Droppers  -- "Anything that I say is my opinion and not my employer's."
> Public Broadcasting Service, 1320 Braddock Pl. Alexandria, VA 22314
> (UUCP) ...{ida,vrdxhq}!pbs!sdroppers
> (VAX/VMS running DECUS UUCP 1.1, ANU News 5.7)

Try using EXTRACT/NOHEADER instead of EXTRACT.
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