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From: poirier@cs.unc.edu (Dan Poirier)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Should filter add blank lines?
Message-ID: <15064@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Date: 10 Jul 90 14:39:13 GMT
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I'm trying to use Elm's filter program to stuff uninteresting
mail into folders without having to read it.  Unfortunately, I'm
winding up with no blank lines between the mail messages that
filter has delivered to my folders, so my mail program thinks
they're one long message.  (We have Elm version 2.3 PL 0.)

According to the reference manual for BSD mail:

   The message delivery system always adds a blank line to the
   end of each message.  This blank line must not be deleted.

This works properly with a "normal" .forward file, but not when
using filter.  Looking at the source for filter, it does not add
a blank line when putting mail into a folder.

Who's supposed to be responsible for this blank line?  Is it
sendmail, or the program that it passes the message to for
delivery (e.g., filter)?

Thanks for your help.

-- 
dan poirier, poirier@cs.unc.edu