Subject: Re: header parsing pine problem...Blank Lines.

From: Ian Hutchinson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 20:52:40 -0500

I know one important way in which a spurious blank line is introduced
into a mail message. It is to use 

cat message | sendmail -t

to send a preformatted mail (e.g. when you might have used formail to
put a new header on to a reply message) to whomever the mail is
preaddressed to.

On my system: Linux RedHat, sendmail-8.7.4, a blank line is inserted
somehow after X-Status:
This is particularly bad for multi-part messages because the MIME
description is then not recognized.

This appears to be a sendmail bug, unless there is some reason why a
blank line ought to be acceptable but is not acceptable to pine.

Ian Hutchinson.