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List:       exim-users
Subject:    Re: [EXIM] problem with MIME attachments
From:       Philip Hazel <ph10 () cus ! cam ! ac ! uk>
Date:       1998-05-27 13:13:38
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On Wed, 27 May 1998, comms wrote:

> We have an ISDN connection to our ISP. They hold some of our mail accounts.
> Mail for any other users in our domain is dumped in a default mailbox. We
> use a pullmail routine to initiate an smtp transfer of mail in this default
> mailbox to our mail server.

Sounds like there is a problem with the pullmail software.

> I assume that all these extra headers are created when the mail message is
> delivered to the default mailbox on our ISP's mail server. 

That's usually the case. The "From " line is a standard BSD message 
separator line, created from the message's envelope.

> I experimented a bit more and found that it wasn't the '>From' header which
> was causing the problem, it's the blank line that precedes it. If I remove
> the blank line by editing the mailbox directly then the attachment is
> received normally.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to get round this problem?

Get the pullmail software fixed so that it sends syntactically correct 
messages over the SMTP connection. There's not really anything else, I'm 
afraid.

-- 
Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
P.Hazel@ucs.cam.ac.uk          New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk (sic)       England.  Phone: +44 1223 334714


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