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From: david@dhw68k.cts.com (David H. Wolfskill)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mush puts space in headers before sending to mailer
Summary: smail 2.5 doesn't do this.
Keywords: mush
Message-ID: <22344@dhw68k.cts.com>
Date: 22 Apr 89 15:01:56 GMT
References: <599@netcom.UUCP> <12628@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <2541@asteria.indetech.uucp>
Reply-To: david@dhw68k.cts.com (David H. Wolfskill)
Organization: Wolfskill & Dowling residence; Anaheim, CA (USA)
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In article <2541@asteria.indetech.uucp> war@indetech.uucp (Andy R.) writes:
|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.

|Well, I can't speak for Smail2.X, however Smail3 does NOT have a command line
|flag for Subject: lines.

smail 2.5 (as distributed) has no such command line flag.

david
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