Re: Inital "From_" line

Tom Samplonius wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 May 1997, Dom Mitchell wrote:
>
> > I know that it shouldn't be there in the first place, but on reading the
> > exim manual, I was inclined to believe that it would ignore an initial
> > From_ line, possibly trying to set the envelope sender (if allowed).
> > However, I have found today (by playing with mh's dist) that it treats
> > the entire message as body, bar the initial From_ line! Naturally, what
> > happens is that the message gets bounced. Here's a sample:
>
> Exim handles From_ lines properly, as long as they are correct. If they
> aren't, it treats it as the start of the body. Your From_line has a
> mangled date part:
>
> >From root@??? Fri May 02 02: 02:06 1997

*sigh*. Thanks for pointing that out. It now means that someting in MH
(or nmh in my case) is at fault. For the time being, however, I've
patched regexp_From in exim.c to allow this sort of cruft.

Thanks,
-Dom