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Re: Problem with formail's splitting messages

1995-11-20 20:53:41
On Fri, 17 Nov 1995, Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:

Formail processes this as
 Message 1
 Message 2 + Message 3
 Message 4

Show the last three lines of message 2 and the first five lines of
message 3 (i.e. when such a misfiling occurred).

I'm sending a few extra lines along...  Note that the first Received: 
header below appears as one long header line while the others are wrapped 
to the next line with the blank space in column one.

|wrote about the No-Tenna on this list. It is not very long.
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|Dave
|davem0911(_at_)aol(_dot_)com
|All Ohio Scanner Club.
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To the other issues brought forward in this series:
 - I'd keep the original version of the mail around so I can look at
   how the mail appears before formail but I don't have sufficient
   disk space to save both the filtered and unfiltered version long
   enough to have actually gotten far enough along in my mail to have
   found the misfilings--especially since they are so infrequent.
   Yes, I know I need more disk space.

 - I haven't tried the switch to 'formail -es' vs. '-s' though I may
   do so soon.  I wanted to get a header sample like Stephen asked for
   above before changing something and not knowing if what I changed
   helped, or am I just being lucky and not getting any misfilings.

 - Someone mentioned having a similar problem and fixing it by having
   popclient give the message directly to procmail (the local delivery
   agent).  I have the delivery agent setup, but as the mail doesn't
   come through SMTP it doesn't matter...as far as having popclient hand
   off the mail, what command line do you use?  I couldn't get that to
   work originally and that is the reason I went with the post-process
   method.


Thanks to everybody for their help.

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