Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!baird!jim From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh Subject: Re: pop not separating mailbox properly Message-ID: Date: 26 Jun 90 11:21:15 GMT References: Sender: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Computer Science Dept., Strathclyde Univ., Glasgow, Scotland. Lines: 21 In-reply-to: djk@cs.mu.OZ.AU's message of 26 Jun 90 02:00:53 GMT In article djk@cs.mu.OZ.AU (David Keegel) writes: I've compiled MH 6.6, and I find that it doesn't split messages up as expected when using inc -host xxx. The whole mailbox comes through as a single item, even when using "inc -host localhost" This is because someone has made a mistake. In older versions of MH, the pop server only understood MMDF-style mailboxes, where messages were delimited by lines containing 4 Control-A's. Somebody hacked the pop server to work with UNIX-type mailboxes (where messages begin with a line starting "From "). Unfortunately, these hacks meant that the previous behaviour with MMDF mailboxes no longer works. [BTW, fiddling with mmdelim in the mtstailor file has no effect: the pop daemon does not read the file!] Further hacks are needed to restore pop support for MMDF-style mailboxes. It would also be nice if the pop daemon could be made to understand about both mailbox formats. Maybe one day, I'll get around to this, but perhaps somebody already has? Jim