john beck jbeckengsuncom james exmh problem interaction sendmail james solaris mh correct james sysadmin wrong responsibility receiving mail james server escape lines beginning choose turn james facility responsibility email clients james cater stupid design unix mail spool suns even james stupid decision rely contentlength instead dealing james problem since mh unaware contentlength rcvstore gags james trying parse messages spool also correct fairness though defend contentlength header consider brain damage extreme sun inherited att james get mail administrator add e flag sendmail james means never see line beginning james line look like specifically need find line etcmailsendmailcf starts mlocal 4784 grep mlocal etcmailsendmailcf mlocal pusrlibmaillocal flsdfmaw5qpsxfmnz9e senvfromsmtphdrfroml renvtolhdrtol 4785 make sure e appears long list flags following f sysadmin uses m4 generate sendmailcf good sysadmin magic line mc file modify_mailer_flagslocal ednl james learn use procmail invoking rcvstore directly instead james letting sendmail put incoming mail spool avoids james whole issue rcvstore deals single message time james everything works also correct though procmail per se needed filters slocal part nmh distribution trick well john _______________________________________________ exmhusers mailing list exmhusersredhatcom httpslistmanredhatcommailmanlistinfoexmhusers wed 09 oct 2002 114249 0700 