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

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Author: crozierm
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] mailx and exim a bad combo?
Okay, I think that I understand now. And incidentally, I missed the
reference to this in the FAQ. I apologize for that.

Exim is adding the new "From" to denote that it has "piped" the message
onto something else for delivery (procmail, in my case). So I need to
find a prefix for exim besides ">" that doesn't make mailx think that the
body of the message is starting. Or I need to give up procmail.

Thanks,

Michael


On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Trevor Sky Garside wrote:

> > 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@???
>
>


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