Re: procmail adding extra "From " header line
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Tres Hofmeister wrote:
> I upgraded a potato box to woody recently. With the current
> sendmail (8.12.1-2) and procmail (3.21.20011028.3.15.2-2), it looks
> like the mail delivery agent (MDA) is sensible-mda, which seems to
> use procmail as a first choice.
>
> What I'm noticing is that messages in my mailbox now have a
> second, escaped "From " header line, e.g.:
>
> >From 0xdeadbeef-request@petting-zoo.net Wed Nov 14 11:58:18 2001
> >From tres Wed Nov 14 11:58:18 2001
>
> This causes various odd problems, the most obvious and annoying
> being that it mostly breaks Mutt's "bounce" function--the message
> is basically mangled at the receiving end, with everything from the
> ">From " line forward moved into the body of the message. Yech...
>
> Removing procmail solves the problem, but I need procmail for
> mail filtering. I've noticed that there's a "wishlist" bug #119104
> against procmail which seems to reference this problem, but it doesn't
> offer a solution. I suppose I could reconfigure sendmail to force
> using a different MDA... Any suggestions?
Two suggestions:
* Use a different MTA. I use exim+procmail here without problems.
* File a "severity: serious" bug against sendmail. It seems that
procmail escapes "From " lines because there is more than one of
them. I wonder if RFC-822 allows it.
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