There is an option (I dont remember it exactly right now) to tell exim
not to add that line.
Normally when using the appendfile driver with the unix mailbox format,
you want exim (or sendmail, or whatever) to write that line so that the
MUA (or MUA agent) knows where one message ends and another beings. The
line is actually part of the envelope..
Apparently procmail doesnt want that format on its input, so you want
to tell exim not to add it. Either that, or if you are receiving mail
via fetchmail, perhaps the POP server you are getting your mail from
has that header there, and is feeding it to exim incorrectly..
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 crozierm@??? wrote:
>
> 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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