From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hal MacArgle Subject: What happened to "From "???? Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 13:23:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20050703172347.GA485@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Reply-To: haltec@kvinet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Greetings: Going bonkers with this after many reliable years of eMail with the so called Unix From_ line; the envelope address; first line of every message. (Or it used to be) Trying to upgrade to Slack10.1, 2.4.29, for other reasons I like, but can't get mail working using either the bundled getmail 4.X or fetchmail 6.X /or/ getmail 3.X as a trial.. Once you get them to fetch the mail I find each message is sans the From_ line so Mutt says sth like "Not a mail directory." This must be common as Googling reports many queries but no solutions.. The latest, I have, Mail HOWTO's still speak about From_ and the /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN file... All my books explain the same.. This "change" is probably for security reasons, whatever, but it has me stumped.. Is there a valid recent tutorial on the subject?? A small operation I don't want to change to Qmail, Postmail or any others just to start the learning curve again.. Any comments or suggestions.. And, Ray, I know this isn't very detailed because I have at least six pages of notes so far.. TIA and Cheers, -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 (2.4.20-1) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs