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From: sob@soma.bcm.tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: uurec doesn't work
Message-ID: <2561@soma.bcm.tmc.edu>
Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 21:26:04 EST
Article-I.D.: soma.2561
Posted: Tue Nov 25 21:26:04 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Nov-86 23:36:57 EST
References: <528@instable.UUCP>
Reply-To: sob@soma.UUCP (Stan Barber)
Organization: Neurology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tx
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In article <528@instable.UUCP> amos@instable.UUCP (Amos Shapir) writes:
>As distributed, uurec (used to process news received by a mail link)
>doesn't recognize the way 'sendmail' creates its headers; it expects
>'From ' instead of 'From:'. If no 'From' line is detected, it spills
>its processed input to stdout, rather than passing it through 'popen'
>to 'rnews'.
>

It was always my impression that uurec was built to handle uucp mail
that was to submitted to rnews. By definition (see RFC 976), UUCP
mail messages start with a line that begins 'From '.

Sendmail can create headers of this nature. Just define the 
"u" flag in the F field (e.g. F=DFMu).

If the UUCP mail you are receiving does not begin with a 
'From ' line, someone's software is broken.

Stan