Re: [Exim] probleme reading mail from novel groupewise

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Michael Stevens
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] probleme reading mail from novel groupewise
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Michael Stevens wrote:

> The system generating the mail in this format is broken. Fix it.
> The white line signifies the end of the message headers and probably
> should not be present. The fact you have a From line both before and
> after it is weird, too.


If a message header is broken, many mailers, including Exim, treat the
remainder as the start of the body. If From: is in the remainder, the
message now has no From: and Exim adds one, using the envelope sender,
in order to make the message conform to RFC 821.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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