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From: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Boldbear)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: "corrupt folder" in 2.3 PL0
Message-ID: <1990Oct15.005751.13093@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US>
Date: 15 Oct 90 00:57:51 GMT
References: <41@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG>
Organization: Mt. Diablo Software Solutions
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In article <41@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG> barker@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG (Bob Barker) writes:
>0.2) unix which has sendmail.  If I send mail, by invoking
>"elm USER" it appears to be sent alright, but when I try to use elm to
>read it, I get something like:
>
>Reading in /usr/mail/barker, message: 0
>Folder is corrupt!!  I can't read it!!
>
>Glancing at the code would lead me to believe that this would be caused
>by a bad "From:" line in the header.  /usr/mail/barker looks like:
>
>---
>From: barker (Bob Barker)
>Message-Id: <9010140500.AA21561@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG>
>Subject: test
>To: barker (Bob Barker)
>Date: Sun, 14 Oct 90 0:00:37 CDT
>X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0]
>
>This is a test

It's not that the first line is bad (it's the normal "From:" header),
it's that the "envelope" "From" line is missing. This line,
which typically has the form:

	From [address] [date]

is added not by ELM but the mail transport agent (sendmail in this case)
when the message is added to a user's mailbox.  So it would appear that
your mail transport agent is failing for some reason.
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