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Why won't formail split this digest?

1996-10-17 08:28:26
Hi,

I'm using formail from procmail 3.10 under Debian GNU/Linux.  I found
that, although `formail +1 -ds >>mailbox' as a procmail rule seemed to
work most of the time, it failed (producing no output) in some cases.

Trouble is, I don't really understand how formail decides where the start
of a given message in a digest is; I though it used the From: header, but
maybe I was wrong ...

Any help appreciated.  Please mail me directly (as well as posting if you
like), as I'm not subscribed to this mailing-list.

I enclose one example of a failed digest below.  Note that the
Crossposted-To: header is actually one *very* long line, though my mailer
won't preserve it as such ...

Cheers,

Nikhil.

--
Nikhil Nair
Trinity College, Cambridge, England
Tel.: +44 1223 368353
Email: nn201(_at_)cus(_dot_)cam(_dot_)ac(_dot_)uk
       nnair(_at_)debian(_dot_)org

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From Linux-Announce-Request(_at_)senator-bedfellow(_dot_)MIT(_dot_)EDU Thu Oct 
17 14:14:05 1996
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 96 21:13:23 EDT
From: Digestifier 
<Linux-Announce-Request(_at_)senator-bedfellow(_dot_)MIT(_dot_)EDU>
Reply-To: Linux-Announce(_at_)senator-bedfellow(_dot_)MIT(_dot_)EDU
To: Linux-Announce(_at_)senator-bedfellow(_dot_)MIT(_dot_)EDU
Subject: Linux-Announce Digest #364

Linux-Announce Digest #364, Volume #2            Wed, 16 Oct 96 21:13:23 EDT

Contents:
  Linux META-FAQ (part 1/1) (Michael K. Johnson)

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From: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm(_at_)redhat(_dot_)com>
Crossposted-To: 
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.answers,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.answers,news.answers
Subject: Linux META-FAQ (part 1/1)
Date: 13 Oct 1996 23:36:50 -0400

Archive-name: linux/meta-faq
Last-modified: 2 Aug 96

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*** The `Linux META-FAQ' is posted automatically by the
*** Linux HOWTO coordinator, Greg Hankins 
<gregh(_at_)sunsite(_dot_)unc(_dot_)edu>.  Please
*** direct any comments or questions about this HOWTO to the author,
*** Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm(_at_)redhat(_dot_)com>.

- --- BEGIN Linux META-FAQ part 1/1 ---

[Body of Linux META-FAQ]

- --- END Linux META-FAQ part 1/1 ---

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