On Wed, 27 May 1998, comms wrote:
> We have an ISDN connection to our ISP. They hold some of our mail accounts.
> Mail for any other users in our domain is dumped in a default mailbox. We
> use a pullmail routine to initiate an smtp transfer of mail in this default
> mailbox to our mail server.
Sounds like there is a problem with the pullmail software.
> I assume that all these extra headers are created when the mail message is
> delivered to the default mailbox on our ISP's mail server.
That's usually the case. The "From " line is a standard BSD message
separator line, created from the message's envelope.
> I experimented a bit more and found that it wasn't the '>From' header which
> was causing the problem, it's the blank line that precedes it. If I remove
> the blank line by editing the mailbox directly then the attachment is
> received normally.
>
> Is there anything I can do to get round this problem?
Get the pullmail software fixed so that it sends syntactically correct
messages over the SMTP connection. There's not really anything else, I'm
afraid.
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