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We've been having sporadic problems with users' mailboxes having control
characters left in the `From ' area of the header of a message. I suspect
that the problem is with binmail (the local delivery program) but I'm not
certain.
The machine is running Digital Unix 3.2c. We're using a recent version of
sendmail (8.7.x, not Digital's 5.65 sendmail), with the following stanza in
the sendmail.cf for the local delivery agent:
Mlocal, P=/bin/mail, F=lsDFMAw5:/|_at_rmn, S=10/30, R=20/40,
T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix,
A=mail -d $u
We're also running the Qualcomm pop server, version 2.1.4-R3, but I'm fairly
certain that the problem with control characters has occurred even for people
that don't use pop mail. Most of our users use pine 3.91 to access their
email.
The control character that is left in the mailbox is always ASCII 255 (octal
377). It generally ends up preceding the `From ' of a mail header, so that
pine won't see any messages after (and including) the message with the
corrupted header.
We haven't had any problems of this nature with other machines at our site
running other flavors of Unix. Those other machines are also running pine
3.91 and the 2.1.4r3 qualcomm popper, so the problem seems to be particular
to our Digital Unix machines.
Has anyone else had this happen, or is it particular to our site?
Tim
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Tim Mooney mooney_at_toons.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu
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Received on Mon Jun 03 1996 - 21:36:24 NZST