Re: formail creates deliver-unreadable format

From: Liviu Daia (no email)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 01:20:07 EST


On 2 December 2001, Christopher D. Audley <>
wrote:
> deliver is correct in reporting the error. The 'From pilsl....' line
> with no colon after the From is how the beginning of a new message is
> marked in an mbox file. It is not a correct rfc822 header, and as the
> first line in the message, it is not a valid rfc822 message.

    True. However, this behaviour is an unnecessary PITA. How about an
option for deliver to silently ignore "From " and ">From " lines? (In
case you wonder, MH utilities sometimes stick ">From " in the middle of
the headers.)

    Regards,

    Liviu Daia

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