When I receive a message that has a line starting with "From ", it's
broken into two messages.  I get my mail from /var/spool/mail.  The
program that incorporates mail thinks that the "From " line starts a new
My sysadmins have told me that the sending mail client is supposed to
escape lines begining with "From ".  EXMH (2.5) doesn't do this.  Should
it?  It appears that my MH is MH 6.8.  Does NMH fix this?

from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1])
	by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3806216F03
	for <jm@localhost>; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:29:49 +0100 (IST)
from jalapeno [127.0.0.1]
	by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0)
	for jm@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:29:49 +0100 (IST)
from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org
    (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g8HKWiC25691 for <jm@jmason.org>;
    Tue, 17 Sep 2002 21:32:44 +0100
from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix)
    with ESMTP id 38AD02940C1; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 13:29:05 -0700 (PDT)
from mail.evergo.net (unknown [206.191.151.2]) by xent.com
    (Postfix) with SMTP id 9656429409F for <fork@xent.com>; Tue,
    17 Sep 2002 13:28:20 -0700 (PDT)
No, hits=-7.1 required=7.0
	tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT
	version=2.50-cvs
From fork-admin@xent.com  Tue Sep 17 23:29:49 2002

> From: yyyy@example.com [mailto:yyyy@example.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 9:50 AM
> > ... we've been fighting the War on Terrorism for as long
> > as there's been commerce, so you'd think we'd /realize/ that
> > escalation of violence is not a solution.
>
> Well said!
>
> --j.
Yeah.  It certainly wasn't a solution to the Carthaginian problem or the
Barbary Pirates.  Wait ... no ... actually ... it was a rather permanent
solution.

No, hits=-489.3 required=5.0
	tests=AWL,DATE_IN_PAST_24_48,T_URI_COUNT_0_1
	version=2.50-cvs

URL: http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2002/09/20.html
Date: 2002-09-20T16:13:37-08:00
Jeremy writes about people who ignore basic language rules I entirely agree
with him. Writing "how r u 2day." is the best way to make me shift my attention
and respect away from you really fast. Another pet peeve: I have only been
speaking English on a regular basis for a bit more than three years, and even I
can grok the difference between "you are" and "your". As mjd wrote on clpm and
said in the YAPC movie: "You...