From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: What happened to "From "??? Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 14:06:38 -0700 Message-ID: <42C9A4DE.8000601@comarre.com> References: <20050703172347.GA485@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> <42C84133.7030808@comarre.com> <20050704172331.GA1151@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20050704172331.GA1151@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hal MacArgle wrote: [...] >>3. Most interesting ... in an actual, downloaded mail file, is the "From >>" line present or not? (Open it with vi or whatever text editor you >>like, and simply take a look.) If not, is there *any* line that looks >>like a message delimiter in there? If there is, please post a sample. > > > Cant post a sample because, in despiration , I purged > all the tests to start with a level playing field.. Can only mention > that as originally setup all the messages had: From: as the very > first word, whereas, when working "properly", now with the older > apps; the first word is From_.. Of course I mean; From(spc) that's as > old as Unix IIRC... I've seen it listed as "From_" many times so > thought that proper... When you refer to the fist line, do you mean a line that resembles the following (taken from a raw mail file here): From REI@email.rei.com Mon Jul 04 09:46:34 2005 but that differs from this form only in that it begins with "From:" instead of "From "? Or do you mean that a different sort of line, but one beginning with "From:", is the first line now? I'm guessing you mean the first of these, and if so, the culprit is most likely a bad sendmail-style rewriting rule somewhere in a config file for something ... whether fetchmail, getmail, sendmail, or something else (do you use procmail or an equivalent with this setup, for instance?) I cannot say. Check the various apps' config files for any rules that involve the word "From" and see if you hit the jackpot. Beyond that ... are you *certain* that both apps are giving you the problem? Did you start with a clean inbox each time you tested, or might (say) existing messages with the getmail problem have still been present during the fetchmail test? And the last thing I can think of is to run tcpdump, or something similar, to capture the packets your ISP actually sends, to see if the "From: is in them, rather then being rewritten locally. - 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