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Re: formail -ds trouble

1996-08-02 09:01:26
Steve Hill wrote,

| On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, David W. Tamkin wrote:

No, Steve, I did not write what you put immediately below my name.  It was
the following, and you're the one who wrote it:

| > | My mail seems to be flowing correctly (thanks to the list) EXCEPT each
| > | message in a digest is split out separately.  I believe that this is
| > | an artifact of formail (-ds) but am unsure how to diagnose and fix
| > | this problem.  Does this sound familiar (I've only been on the list
| > | for about two weeks)?

This is the part I wrote:

| > I don't understand the problem.  formail's -ds option is designed
| > specifically for bursting digests.  If you want the digests kept intact,
| > don't use formail -ds.

You responded with the following, which didn't enlighten us at all:

| The program that I have been using to grab the POP3 mail, popclient,
| munges them into a single file, separated by the From line.  If I feed
| the single file into procmail, it >'s the internal From lines, so all
| the messages are glomped together.  That's why I used formail, to
| split these into single messages.

Now wait, Steve.  First you said that their being split out separately is the
problem:

| > | My mail seems to be flowing correctly (thanks to the list) EXCEPT each
| > | message in a digest is split out separately.  

Now you're saying that that's what you want:

| That's why I used formail, to split these into single messages.

So which is it?  Do you want them split or don't you?

| I am appending an edited version of a single download, if that will
| help see what I'm saying.

You encoded it in base64, so no, I can't see.  Maybe someone else can decode
it and help you or perhaps you can post it as text.  Be sure to indent it all
one space from the left margin so that any existing From_ lines don't get
changed to >From_ by the mail transports between you and us; when that hap-
pens we don't know whether they were From_ or >From_ in your outgoing text.

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