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From: dbw@mtunk.ATT.COM (d.b.wood)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: elm 1.7b address parsing problem
Message-ID: <100@mtunk.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Feb 88 02:43:42 GMT
Reply-To: dbw@mtunk.ATT.COM (d.b.wood)
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Organization: AT&T ISL Middletown NJ USA
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The following is a mailbox file that makes a problem for elm 1.7b
(courtesy of killer.uucp) compiled on a VAX SVR2.  Elm (and also from,
for that matter) misses the second message header completely, and
includes it as part of the first message.
It does it with ":" added to the "From" line, etc.
The only thing that makes it work is adding the "Tue Feb 16 09:45:51 1988"
stuff to the end of the line.

Now if I use only elm, this shouldn't be a problem, but I have to use
some other mailers as well, and they save copies in the second format,
without the date on the From line.

As far as I can tell, RFC822 doesn't require the date stuff on the
From line.  Have I missed something?

Another problem: when compiled to have the builtin pager NOT display
context, one of the last lines of messages is often overwritten by the
"hit <return> to return to elm" line.

Suggestions?

Dave Wood	sn!d.wood

P.S. I prefer elm to all the other mailers I've seen so far.

mailfile that confuses elm and from:
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From To:f.ubar Tue Feb 16 09:45:51 1988
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 88 9:45:51 EST
To: f.ubar
Subject: Bazzazz

Bzzzzzz...

Dave


From dbw
>From:       d.b.wood
To:         s.omeone
Date:       16 Feb 1988  14:08 EST
Subject:    AIM versions

Nothing.

Dave