jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) (06/26/90)
In article <DJK.90Jun26120053@murgon.cs.mu.OZ.AU> djk@cs.mu.OZ.AU (David Keegel) writes:
I've compiled MH 6.6, and I find that it doesn't split messages up as
expected when using inc -host xxx. The whole mailbox comes through as
a single item, even when using "inc -host localhost"
This is because someone has made a mistake. In older versions of MH,
the pop server only understood MMDF-style mailboxes, where messages
were delimited by lines containing 4 Control-A's. Somebody hacked the
pop server to work with UNIX-type mailboxes (where messages begin with
a line starting "From "). Unfortunately, these hacks meant that the
previous behaviour with MMDF mailboxes no longer works. [BTW, fiddling
with mmdelim in the mtstailor file has no effect: the pop daemon does
not read the file!]
Further hacks are needed to restore pop support for MMDF-style
mailboxes. It would also be nice if the pop daemon could be made to
understand about both mailbox formats. Maybe one day, I'll get around
to this, but perhaps somebody already has?
Jim