Quoth Sascha E. Pollok on Sun, Nov 21, 1999:
> I think this is some problem with his client and qpopper but
> perhaps some Exim guys can help?!
We used to use qpopper, but I got no such reports from our users.
I only have some random thoughts. I hope you have access to the
mailbox on the server. If you don't, you can check for the info
in your "popped" mailbox.
Check whether there is an empty line before the UUCP "From " line
of the second message. Empty means nothing, not even whitespace
or \r. Qpopper probably greps for the string "\n\nFrom ". Also
check whether the line starts with ">From ". Check this with a
real editor which hides nothing from you, if it exists. Vi is
nice in this respect, and to check for a single space character,
try to add ('A') text at the end of the line. If you see your
text starting with a space, you have a problem. You can also do:
sed 's/$/$/' </var/mail/user >/tmp/file
view /tmp/file
and see whitespace and such. Note that less(1) is not good
enough -- it doesn't show you \r, whilst view(1)/vi(1) shows it
as ^M.
If you can open your mailbox with an MUA (pine, mutt, mail, elm)
on your server, it would be a nice thing to do. Check whether
the MUA sees the two messages as two messages. Check it with
different MUAs, without "saving" the mailbox (for maximum trust,
backup and restore your mailbox (but lock and compare it before
restoring, you don't want to lose your mail)). The first
suggestion is better, though.
Vadik.
--
Bell Labs Unix -- Reach out and grep someone.
