Re: [Exim] mailx and exim a bad combo?

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Author: Trevor Sky Garside
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To: crozierm, exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] mailx and exim a bad combo?
> From nobody@??? Thu Aug 10 02:40:06 2000
> >From crozierm  Thu Aug 10 02:40:06 2000
> Received: from xxx.yyy.com ([199.183.24.203])
>         by zzz.net with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #16)
>         id 13Moon-0001cO-00
>         for crozierm@???; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 02:40:05 -0700
> Received: (from nobody@localhost)
>         by xxx.yyy.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) id FAA04963;
>         Thu, 10 Aug 2000 05:34:44 -0400


Why do you have two "From" lines in your message? The reason the > has been
added is that in a Unix mail spool, "From " is the signal that a new message
has started, so the MTA tacks a > in fromt of it when it writes it out to
disk.

--Trevor

Trevor Sky Garside
trevor@???