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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Should filter add blank lines?
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Date: 11 Jul 90 19:27:00 GMT
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I experimented once with having .forward simply pipe mail into cat which
was appending it to a file.  The blank lines did not appear.

Apparently sendmail invokes /usr/ucb/mail to actually save the mail in the
mailbox, and that mail program adds the blank lines.  In any event, the
blank line is NOT supplied to the stdin stream for piped mail.  If filter
does not add it for folders and if elm requires it, then that sounds enough
inconsistent that I wonder how it ever worked.

--Phil Howard, KA9WGN-- | Individual CHOICE is fundamental to a free society
<phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> | no matter what the particular issue is all about.