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From: honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: New headers breaking mail
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Date: Mon, 13-May-85 23:39:20 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 23:39:20 1985
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You are surely not to blame here, Randy.

Your mailer, probably mailx, a derivative of Mail, wants
messages to be separated by a blank line followed by a valid
"From " line.  A valid "From " line has the following form:

From <user> <ctime format date string>

(Ignore any leading ">" inserted by rnews.)  <user> is any
string not containing whitespace.  <ctime format date string> is
exactly what it claims to be: the 26-character string described
on the ctime man page.

Locally, I validate the first line of each incoming message in
rmail.  If it's not right, I reject it immediately, with stderr
"No From line !?!"; uuxqt then takes care of the rest.  This has
always produced immediate results.  Emacs-based mailers seem to
be the most frequent offenders, since they tend to shun unix
mail altogether, and call uux directly.

	Peter