From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mads Martin Joergensen Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:47:44 +0000 Subject: Re: question about tunable option Message-Id: <20070725004744.GG2073@mmj.dk> List-Id: References: <20070724205639.58a3afa6@franky> In-Reply-To: <20070724205639.58a3afa6@franky> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org * Charlie Brady [Jul 25. 2007 02:40]: > >>Yes, messages in an mbox file do have a "From " header. But that is not > >>relevant to what an MTA expects to see. 'From ' is not an RFC2821/2822 > >>message header - it's mbox specific metadata storage (and also a message > >>separator in that format). mlmmj should never see a message with a line in > >>the message header starting 'From '. > > > >Point taken. But in case there is one--I want to delete it. I've seen > >mails to lists with From in it. > > Really? Really truly? If you see it, it almost certainly didn't arrive via > SMTP. Yeah, some broken mailer or such I assume. But rather get rid of it anyway then. -- Mads Martin Joergensen, http://mmj.dk "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J.