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From: war@indetech.UUCP (Andy R.)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mush puts space in headers before sending to mailer
Keywords: mush
Message-ID: <2541@asteria.indetech.uucp>
Date: 20 Apr 89 21:26:48 GMT
References: <599@netcom.UUCP> <12628@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: war@indetech.uucp (Andy R.)
Organization: Dr. Gonzo's Land-o-Ammo
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dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes:

] In article <599@netcom.UUCP> lang@netcom.UUCP (Ghost of Banquo) writes:
] >The problem is this:  When using Mush to send mail, it places a blank line
] >after the header information it sends to the mailer (smail).  Since it
] >passes the Subject field on the command line to smail, it ends up being
] 
] This last line I don't understand.  What do you mean by that?  I have
] never known an MTA (such as smail, sendmail, etc) to take the "subject"
] of a message on its command line.  Mush isn't configured to do that anyway
] (that is, it's not configured to send the subject header to the MTAs command
] line).  This could be the source of your problem since no one else running
] smail or any other MTA has reported a similar problem.
] 
] If smail has an option to take the subject from the command line, you
] should not specify it in your config.h file.  Sorry, I don't know anything
] about smail, so my comments about it are speculation.
] 

Well, I can't speak for Smail2.X, however Smail3 does NOT have a command line
flag for Subject: lines.  And as Dan said, to the best of my knowledge, no
Mail Transport Agent (MTA) that I'm aware of supplies such a flag.


Andy Rundquist
war@indetech.uucp
-- 
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