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From: tpo@dde.dk (Thomas Peter Sonne Olesen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Problem with messages starting with blanks
Message-ID: <583@Aragorn.dde.dk>
Date: 3 Jun 89 23:05:44 GMT
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark
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I have just ported elm (2.2 PL8) but I havn't started to use it as standard
mailer because some messages disapeared when I tested it.

If I recieve a message from my local system written with the standard  
mail program, and the message start with blanks my mailfile
(/usr/mail/tpo) will look like this:
---------------------------------------------
From xyz Sun Jun  4 00:57 DST 1989
    A message line starting with blanks

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elm count the number of lines in the message correctly in the menu,
but when i read the message elm only shows a blank screen.

If I quit elm without deleting the message elm add the Status line,
after the message line which cause the mail file to look like:
---------------------------------------------
From abc Sun Jun  4 00:57 DST 1989
    A message line starting with blanks
Status: RO

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It looks like elm treat the message line as a part of the header.

Can any one explain this to me.
Is it elm or mail that handle this wrong.

/Thomas
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Thomas P.S. Olesen                               Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
E-mail: ..!uunet!mcvax!dkuug!dde!tpo             System Software Department
        or       tpo@dde.dk