[comp.mail.misc] Mush puts space in headers before sending to mailer

war@indetech.UUCP (Andy R.) (04/21/89)

dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes:

] In article <599@netcom.UUCP> lang@netcom.UUCP (Ghost of Banquo) writes:
] >The problem is this:  When using Mush to send mail, it places a blank line
] >after the header information it sends to the mailer (smail).  Since it
] >passes the Subject field on the command line to smail, it ends up being
] 
] This last line I don't understand.  What do you mean by that?  I have
] never known an MTA (such as smail, sendmail, etc) to take the "subject"
] of a message on its command line.  Mush isn't configured to do that anyway
] (that is, it's not configured to send the subject header to the MTAs command
] line).  This could be the source of your problem since no one else running
] smail or any other MTA has reported a similar problem.
] 
] If smail has an option to take the subject from the command line, you
] should not specify it in your config.h file.  Sorry, I don't know anything
] about smail, so my comments about it are speculation.
] 

Well, I can't speak for Smail2.X, however Smail3 does NOT have a command line
flag for Subject: lines.  And as Dan said, to the best of my knowledge, no
Mail Transport Agent (MTA) that I'm aware of supplies such a flag.


Andy Rundquist
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david@dhw68k.cts.com (David H. Wolfskill) (04/22/89)

In article <2541@asteria.indetech.uucp> war@indetech.uucp (Andy R.) writes:
|dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Dan Heller) writes:
|] In article <599@netcom.UUCP> lang@netcom.UUCP (Ghost of Banquo) writes:
|] >The problem is this:  When using Mush to send mail, it places a blank line
|] >after the header information it sends to the mailer (smail).  Since it
|] >passes the Subject field on the command line to smail, it ends up being

|] This last line I don't understand.  What do you mean by that?  I have
|] never known an MTA (such as smail, sendmail, etc) to take the "subject"
|] of a message on its command line.

|Well, I can't speak for Smail2.X, however Smail3 does NOT have a command line
|flag for Subject: lines.

smail 2.5 (as distributed) has no such command line flag.

david
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