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From: argv%turnpike@Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: Dealing with old mail programs?
Message-ID: <128243@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 00:43:07 GMT
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In article <1817@naucse.UUCP> sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) writes:
> I need to know if there's an easy way to have mush work a little
> more nicely with old style mailers.  I regularly get mail from
> several sites whose mailers don't place an empty line at the
> start of the message body.  Since I don't have mush display all
> headers, it just as regularly eats the first few lines of the
> message.  (Particularly when the message starts out: 'Steve:...')

More specifically, you are having problems -only- when the message
starts as 'Steve:...' because if there is no blank line between that
line and the other headers, how would mush know that the line in
question is a header or not?  How would you recommend that it be
implemented?  Mush does not require a blank line between headers, 
but if there isn't one, unpredictable results may occur (as you have
noticed).  This is on reason why mush forces a blank line for you
on outgoing messages.

dan