[Exim] Re: Lines: xxx mail header and maildir

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Author: Miquel van Smoorenburg
Date:  
To: exim-users
Subject: [Exim] Re: Lines: xxx mail header and maildir
In article <20021019162827.GM2731@???>,
Marc MERLIN <marc_news@???> wrote:
>So, I recently switched to maildir delivery with the following
>transport:
>
>The problem is that I then read my mail with mutt, which reads the
>Lines: header to show me how many lines are in the message it tells me 0
>for all the maildir messages since they lack that header.
>Apparently the header doesn't get added anywhere.


Indeed. That's why I tried to convince Philip that exim should be
able to add this header. And I succeeded ;)

>Ok, I'm curious now: who is responsible for adding that Lines header?
>Exim?
>The MDA?


The LDA, which is usually exim.

headers_remove = "lines"
headers_add = "Lines: ${body_linecount}\n"

Mike.