barker@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG (Bob Barker) (10/14/90)
Forgive me if this has been addressed here before or if any of the patches fix this problem, but elm has always worked beautifully for me before so I haven't been following this news group! I recently changed the name of my machine and while I was at it, upgraded elm to 2.3 PL0 from 2.2 PL0. Somewhere in this process, elm decided to start writing corrupt messages to my mailbox file. I am using System V.3 (Interactive 2.0.2) unix which has sendmail. If I send mail, by invoking "elm USER" it appears to be sent alright, but when I try to use elm to read it, I get something like: Reading in /usr/mail/barker, message: 0 Folder is corrupt!! I can't read it!! Glancing at the code would lead me to believe that this would be caused by a bad "From:" line in the header. /usr/mail/barker looks like: --- From: barker (Bob Barker) Message-Id: <9010140500.AA21561@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG> Subject: test To: barker (Bob Barker) Date: Sun, 14 Oct 90 0:00:37 CDT X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] This is a test --- Can anybody help me shead some light on this? If its a matter of this being a known problem solved in a certain patch, please let me know which one. If not, please let me know how I might go about resolving the problem. I LOVE elm and hate not being able to use it! Thanks! -Bob Barker ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Barker barker@wd0gol.mn.org Robert Barker & Associates Eden Prairie, MN.
rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US (Rob Boldbear) (10/15/90)
In article <41@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG> barker@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG (Bob Barker) writes: >0.2) unix which has sendmail. If I send mail, by invoking >"elm USER" it appears to be sent alright, but when I try to use elm to >read it, I get something like: > >Reading in /usr/mail/barker, message: 0 >Folder is corrupt!! I can't read it!! > >Glancing at the code would lead me to believe that this would be caused >by a bad "From:" line in the header. /usr/mail/barker looks like: > >--- >From: barker (Bob Barker) >Message-Id: <9010140500.AA21561@wd0gol.WD0GOL.MN.ORG> >Subject: test >To: barker (Bob Barker) >Date: Sun, 14 Oct 90 0:00:37 CDT >X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL0] > >This is a test It's not that the first line is bad (it's the normal "From:" header), it's that the "envelope" "From" line is missing. This line, which typically has the form: From [address] [date] is added not by ELM but the mail transport agent (sendmail in this case) when the message is added to a user's mailbox. So it would appear that your mail transport agent is failing for some reason. -- Rob Bernardo Mt. Diablo Software Solutions _ / email: rob@mtdiablo.Concord.CA.US phone: (415) 827-4301 <_/>< S0/8 b-/+ g- l y- z- n o a-- u+ v-- j- P6 B3 f+ t- dvcv sv w- m+ r+ p / "There is no right 'not to be offended'." -Bob Culmer