[ On Sunday, November 5, 2000 at 09:26:08 (-0500), Dave C. wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [Exim] mailx and exim a bad combo?
>
> 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..
Just to be pedantic: The "From " line is not part of the envelope, not
even when your e-mail travels over UUCP. The contents are sometimes
derrived from the envelope data (but in the presence of RFC-822 headers
in the message it need not be), just as the "Received:" header contents
are. In fact in traditional UUCP mail systems there can be several
"From " lines at various times and they serve the same purpose as the
"Received:" header.
In a Unix mailbox folder or spool file the "From " line (along with the
blank line preceding it when there's a previous message) is the
start-of-message indicator too of course, just as you describe.
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Greg A. Woods
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