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From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: The topmost From line in a message
Message-ID: <9088@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us>
Date: 11 Mar 89 15:00:09 GMT
References: <4820@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff)
Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI
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In article <4820@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo) writes:
>ELM only recognizes lines of the format
>
>	From [logname] [date]
>
>The question is: Is smail broken and disobeying the standard, or
>should ELM tolerate topmost from lines of such format?

I think elm should tolerate it since it's an old standard.  Of course 
I really think that all smail 2.5 sites should be running my "lmail", 
which fixes this problem and adds forwarding to programs and files.  
Let me know if you want a copy.


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