Hi,
I spent a fair while trying to figure out where my /var/mail/jhs was
getting stuff like this from:
------
From foo(_at_)bar Fri Apr 3 18:47:05 1998
^A^A^A^A
Delivery-Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 18:45:49 +0200
Delivery-Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 18:40:47 +0200
Delivery-Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 18:35:46 +0200
Delivery-Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 18:30:44 +0200
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(I use sendmail & procmail, my isp is using qmail & uucp, etc, multiple ISPs,
so procmail wasn't first suspect.
I enclose a patch [against freebsd ports/procmail the 2.2.5 release of
which uses] procmail-3.11pre7 (I guess there's a newer version, but whatever )
Hopefully it might make it easier for the next person searching for a
non indicative foo(_at_)bar(_dot_)
PS I'm still not sure why I'm getting all those
Delivery-Date
nor why multiple mails are being concatenated, nor where all those
4 control As come from (I also sometimes get ^B^A^A^A)
but at least I'm localised to looking at procmail/formail area now :-)
*** config.h.orig Mon Apr 28 02:27:41 1997
--- config.h Sat Apr 4 14:34:12 1998
***************
*** 252,258 ****
/* some formail-specific configuration options: */
! #define UNKNOWN "foo(_at_)bar" /* formail default originator
name */
#define OLD_PREFIX "Old-" /* formail field-Old-prefix */
#define BABYL_SEP1 '\037' /* BABYL format separator one */
#define BABYL_SEP2 '\f' /* BABYL format separator two */
--- 252,258 ----
/* some formail-specific configuration options: */
! #define UNKNOWN "dummy(_dot_)formail(_at_)procmail(_dot_)host"
/* formail default originator name */
#define OLD_PREFIX "Old-" /* formail field-Old-prefix */
#define BABYL_SEP1 '\037' /* BABYL format separator one */
#define BABYL_SEP2 '\f' /* BABYL format separator two */
*** man/formail.man.orig Sat Dec 21 04:28:16 1996
--- man/formail.man Sat Apr 4 14:34:27 1998
***************
*** 264,270 ****
.PP
To supersede the Reply-To: field in a header you could use:
.RS
! formail \-(_at_)FM_REN_INSERT@ "Reply-To: foo(_at_)bar"
.RE
.PP
To convert a non-standard mailbox file into a standard mailbox file you can
--- 264,270 ----
.PP
To supersede the Reply-To: field in a header you could use:
.RS
! formail \-(_at_)FM_REN_INSERT@ "Reply-To:
dummy(_dot_)formail(_at_)procmail(_dot_)host"
.RE
.PP
To convert a non-standard mailbox file into a standard mailbox file you can
-
Julian
Julian H. Stacey jhs(_at_)freebsd(_dot_)org (& jhs(_at_)muc(_dot_)de)
http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/