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From: mdr@doc.ic.ac.uk (Mark Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: .forward/.maildelivery/slocal problem
Keywords: maildelivery slocal forward
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Date: 29 Jun 91 16:02:58 GMT
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Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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If I set up .forward and .maildelivery in the prescribed way,
I get the following problem:

    messages get appended in files as directed in .maildelivery, but
    they get appended with no "From " line and with ^A^A at the
    beginning and at the end. (Of course they have a "From:" line,
    but no "From " line.)

    What's worse, this also happens fpr the default case, which goes
    to /var/spool/mail/mdr, whether or not I explicitly state this
    default in .maildelivery.  inc cannot handle this; it can't
    split /var/spool/mail/mdr into its constituent messages, rather
    it thinks there is just one (long) message there.

Has anyone else had this problem? What to do?

Mark Ryan

mdr@doc.ic.ac.uk

(Answers by email, and I will summarise. Thanks.)