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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.elm
Subject: The topmost From line in a message
Message-ID: <4820@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 89 19:42:02 GMT
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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This is a question about allowable formats for the topmost "From "
line in a mail message.

ELM only recognizes lines of the format

	From [logname] [date]

as the beginning of a mail message.

However, the ELM development group has gotten a complaint  from a
user on a system that uses smail 2.5 as the mail transport agent.
Apparently smail 2.5 (according to this user) delivers mail messages
with first lines of the format

	From [logname] [date] remote from [host]

Now I see those in messages but never as the *topmost* line.

The question is: Is smail broken and disobeying the standard, or
should ELM tolerate topmost from lines of such format?
-- 
Rob Bernardo, Pacific Bell UNIX/C Reusable Code Library
Email:     ...![backbone]!pacbell!pbhyf!rob   OR  rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM
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