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From: kre@munnari.OZ (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: "Binary"/international text in mail
Message-ID: <1263@munnari.OZ>
Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 03:43:18 EST
Article-I.D.: munnari.1263
Posted: Thu Oct 30 03:43:18 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Oct-86 23:08:21 EST
References: <1185@hoptoad.uucp> <3000002@cdp> <755@mtune.UUCP> <7242@utzoo.UUCP>, <7263@utzoo.UUCP>
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <7263@utzoo.UUCP>, henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) quotes:

> > Actually, the mail transport system should not care about "From "s in
> > things.  When it gets to the far end, IF it is being delivered to a
> > mailbox that used "\nFrom " to delimit messages, then the far end has
> > to worry about this...

and then writes:

> I thought about this a little bit, and decided not to do it on utzoo.  Why?
> Because it would mean that mail reaching our neighbors through us would
> have at least two "From " lines on the front, where it now has one "From "
> and one or more ">From ", and I am really not sure how their mailers would
> react to this.

This seems like a separate issue, the unix "From " line at the head of
a mail item, and any subsequent ones are part of the envelope - you
should feel free to do whatever is necessary to those to maintain the
standard envelope format (eh?  What standard envelope format??).

The "From " lines that it would be better not to touch are those in
th body of the mail - ones that currently tend to have a '>' stuck
in just in case someone, somewhere, were to decide that this is
really two mail items in one file.

Those ones you could leave alone (says he on a sendmail machine
that just loves to insert \n's in the middle of long lines in
the body, etc.  I fixed that once, must get around to doing
it again...)

The slightly more difficult question is what to do with a mail item
that starts with "From " in the first line immediately after the
unix header line - is that part of the body, or is it another header?

Robert Elz		munnari!kre