Re: combining /var/mail files

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

Well because of the well-defined date/time of the inaccessibility of
our regular mail server, I was able to split the target /var/mail files
and drop in the files from the remote VPS without difficuilty.

Thanks for the help.

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20180823233749.Gtg7b%steffen%sdaoden.eu@localhost>:
>  |steve%prd.co.uk@localhost wrote in <20180823174137.6B0EF4639B%monroe.prd.co.uk@localhost>:
>   ...
>  |Otherwise you could my BSD Mail clone which also tries to get the
>  |former right -- the POSIX standard and Unix traditional only use
>  |"From xy", whereas the standard RFC 4155 is more strict, and that
>  |can cause misinterpretations by some software.
>   ...
> 
> I have to point out that we do _not_ reencode mail messages yet,
> which we will be able to do in a few years from now on.  I.e., the
> correct way to deal with that would be to detect the mess, then
> recreate the message from scratch as necessary, and use some kind
> of MIME encoding to prevent misinterpretation.
> 
> But for now we unfortunately only use the most basic and only
> truly portable form of the traditional "From " quoting mechanism,
> and prepend a ">" to any "^From " that happens to exist inside
> a message body.
> It may nonetheless be better than "cat && echo && cat" for such
> cases.
> 
> --steffen
> |
> |Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
> |der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
> |einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
> |(By Robert Gernhardt)
> 


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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

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