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| DATE | 2007-11-18 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Website Updates
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Ruben Safir wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 01:35:47AM -0500, Ron Guerin wrote:
>> Ron Guerin wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, I guess Mutt isn't putting the delimiter in, if you're using
>>> Mutt to read an mbox that Sendmail is doing delivery to, it'd be
>>> Sendmail or maybe procmail doing the delivery. Again, best to use some
>>> nice shiny CPAN mbox parser, but I'm sure if you take another look at
>>> your mbox file you can see what the delimiter is.
>> Further investigation seems to show that Thunderbird uses a delimiter
>> that looks like this: From - Sun Nov 18 01:22:56 2007
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> That's almost exaclty what the mbox in /var/spool/mail/ looks like
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> From: ruben-at-mrbrklyn Sun Nov 18 01:22:56 2007
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> I think that literally written by sendmail when the mail is recieved
> and entered on the first line of the mail, which is why the only
> thing you can trust in your headers with regard to spam is the
> very first line.
I've gotta say, that Sendmail's choice of delimiter is almost grossly
inappropriate since it makes it much harder than necessary to sort out
message delimiters from From: headers. They could have and should have
used any string that wasn't the letters "f","r","o","m" and a colon.
- Ron
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