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From: larry@lut.fi (Lauri Toropainen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Elm under SCO UNIX 3.2
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.102645.21572@lut.fi>
Date: 27 Jun 91 10:26:45 GMT
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
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I have just installed elm to our SCO Unix 3.2. After a long (and
desperate) configuration of sendmail, everything finally seems to work
OK. There's just this one exception:

SCO local mailer seems to add a delimeter string of 4 CTRL-A's before
and after each message it delivers to the incoming mailbox files. For
instance, /usr/spool/mail/larry looks like

^A^A^A^A
From ...
<header lines>
<message body>
^A^A^A^A

The trouble is that elm is not able to read this file because of those
control characters. Instead, it gives the following error message:

Folder is corrupt!!  I can't read it!!

So, what next? Are these CTRL-A's a feature specified exclusively by
SCO? Should I use a different local mailer (right now it is lmail)? Or
is it possible to configure elm to ignore these characters?

Any ideas?

Lauri
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