Control characters in mail files

From: Paul Crittenden <crittend_at_storm.simpson.edu>
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 10:30:38 -0600

This is not a major problem but more of an annoyance which we would like to
get rid of if possible. Once in a while we have user e-mail files in the
/var/spool/mail directory which gets control characters as the first two
control characters in the file. They are usually a 0? in a black box.
When these appear our mail programs can't read the files and say they are
corrupt. If we go in and delete those characters then the mail programs
read the file just fine. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for
this. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Paul Crittenden
Computer System Manager
Simpson College
e-mail: crittend_at_simpson.edu

Y2K? Why not 3?
Received on Thu Mar 04 1999 - 16:33:10 NZDT