Subject: Split Mail Messages

From: Carolynn Seeley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 16:01:40 -0400 (EDT)

We would be interested in finding out if anyone had a similar problem as I
outlined below. There have been other instances of split mail but don't
have as detailed information. 

Thanks for any help or light you may shed.

Carolynn

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Carolynn Seeley                     email:  [email-masked]
Consultant, Office Systems Support          [email-masked]
PINE Administrator
Computing and Information Services     
McMaster University, ABB-132
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Date: Mon, 29 May 1995 13:48:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: Carolynn Seeley <cseeley@offsv1>
To: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Subject: Split Mail Messages

We have just recently moved our campus email server (called mcmail) from
an SGI platform to a SUN 1000 O/S version 2.4. We are running version
8.6.9 of sendmail with PINE 3.89 .

We have come across an oddity. A colleague on the same system saved
approximately 6 of his email messages to a folder and then emailed the
folder to me as an attachment to an email message. I saved the attachment
as a file and then composed a message to myself and read in the file (^R)
.  I then mailed the message.  My message to myself arrived blank and then
all the email messages that had been included in the message arrived right
after it as separate messages in my INBOX. None of the included messages
had been addressed to me but I received them all as separate mail
messages. 

Is this a bug or does a parameter or something need changing? 

Thanks for any information you can give me.
Carolynn

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Carolynn Seeley                     email:  [email-masked]
Consultant, Office Systems Support          [email-masked]
PINE Administrator
Computing and Information Services     
McMaster University, ABB-132
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From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 16:18:49 -0400 (EDT)

> Thanks for any help or light you may shed.

I'm no expert, but it appears that, since you included your folder as 
part of your message body, that data appears in the INBOX as if it were 
individual messages.  If you had read the data in with an offset or a 
preceding character (e.g., '>'), Pine would have not interpreted the 
header data as comprising individual message headers.

The reason it went okay as a MIME'd attachment is that the headers don't 
look like headers.

Hope that explains it.

Don Sugarman
[email-masked]