Re: cannot send mail from balsa (rh linux 7.2)

[Carlos Morgado <chbm chbm nu>]

On 2002.01.02 09:21:22 +0000 Brian Stafford wrote:
> On Mon, 31 December 03:44 James McPherson - TSG Engineer wrote:
>> 
>> On 31 Dec 2001, 02:34:19 PM Duane Douglas wrote:
>> > At 01:53 PM 12/31/2001 +1100, James McPherson - TSG Engineer wrote:
>> >
>> [snip]
>> 
>> > here's the text of my outbox:
>> >
>> >  From ddouglas@acedsl.com Sun Dec 30 21:08:31 2001
>> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:08:31 -0500
>> > From: Duane Douglas <ddouglas@acedsl.com>
>> > To: ddouglas@acedsl.com
>> > Subject: test
>> > Message-ID: <20011230210831.C13512@grumpy.dog-media.com>
>> > Mime-Version: 1.0
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>> > X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.7
>> > Status: RO
>> > Content-Length: 5
>> > Lines: 1
>> >
>> > test
>> >
>> >  From ddouglas@acedsl.com Sun Dec 30 21:40:58 2001
>> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 21:40:58 -0500
>> > From: Duane Douglas <ddouglas@acedsl.com>
>> > To: ddouglas@acedsl.com
>> > Subject: test
>> > Message-ID: <20011230214058.A13758@grumpy.dog-media.com>
>> > Mime-Version: 1.0
>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>> > X-Mailer: Balsa 1.1.7
>> > Status: RO
>> > Content-Length: 5
>> > Lines: 1
>> >
>> > test
>> 
>> 
>> I'm not sure that you are allowed to have the first From line starting with
>> a space character (maybe one of the others on the list can advise). No
>> matter,
> 
> The first from line is *not* part of the message.  It's part of the 
> berkeley mbox storage format.  This should *never* be present in a message 
> transferred via an MTA, see RFC 2822.
> 

it's there to make it an mbox, keep in mind this is Outbox.
anyway, the spaces before the From line are totaly weird and shouldn't be
there as they mean 'quote this From, it's not the begining of a message'
i wonder how they got there in the first place


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