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From: iane@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian C Edmond)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Need help with ELM filter
Message-ID: <4885@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Apr 91 12:34:55 GMT
References: <4813@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1034@lucifer.UUCP>
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In article <1034@lucifer.UUCP> rst@lucifer.UUCP ( 233) writes:
>In article <4813@syma.sussex.ac.uk> iane@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Ian C Edmond) writes:
>>I've recently been trying to get the ELM filter system to work. On the
>>whole, things work OK - the filter picks out the right messages and puts
>>them in the right places. But it doesn't store them in mailbox format,
>>so ELM can't read them. Is this a common problem? Any ideas?
>
>I've found this problem too. I can't quite remember the cause, but I know I 
>had to modify filter to add an extra header line to the mail it was saving in
>folders. I think it was the 'From' (Not 'From:') line that was missing. Does
>Elm 2.3 pl 11 fix this?

Yes, this is exactly the problem I was having. Can anyone tell me how to
reistate that missing  'From'  line?

Build high for happiness,

Ian Edmond
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