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Re: spurious "from" - whose bug is it?

1997-06-12 21:44:00
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wwgrol(_at_)sparc01(_dot_)fw(_dot_)hac(_dot_)com (W. Wesley Groleau x4923) 
wrote:
:I have mail in my inbox from "appearances," dated "they have a wide"  :-)
:(actually a continuation of the message before).  Is this a bug of Solaris,
:sendmail, procmail, mailtool, or ???
:
:First three lines of message "header":
:
:>From appearances, they have a WIDE range of IP addresses in their DNS - I
:suspect they register iki subdomains for members, and set up MX for those
:users (was this mentioned?) - if you spoke nicely with your CURRENT mail

That's not a message header at all.  A message header begins with
"From ", not ">From ".  In fact, that > was placed there precisely to
prevent that line from being recognized as the beginning of a header.

Those three lines are a continuation of the previous letter in inbox.
Whatever recognized it as a new letter is buggy.

Signatures Follow. (tm)

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