Adaptec's mailer

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

Hmmm....  Jim T said something about Ted's headers confusing some 
mail user agents, I thoughthe mentioned Pine.  So I thought I'd check it 
out.

First, Pine doesn't seem to have a problem with Ted's mail.  I'm using 
Pine to reply to this mail of his.  (Painful, too, ESC-b doesn't work at 
all. :-)

Second, as far as I can see, Ted's [Adaptec's] mailer is RFC-conformant.  I 
guess that people who want to suppress those obnoxious "Form: Header: Text:" 
tags are out of luck unless they use RMail and feel like doing some hairy 
e-lisp or slang (if you use JED instead of GNU Emacs) programming.  But 
there's no rule against putting headers in the text if you want them there.

An alternative would be to use procmail and use something like the 
following in your .procmailrc (I haven't tested it, it may not produce a 
legal mailbox or work correctly):

# f should filter this mail back into procmail for further processing
:0 f
* From:.*asia\.adaptec\.com
* ??BHeader: Adaptec
| egrep -v '^(Form:|Header:|Text:)'

# ;-) ;-)  Doesn't do anything for Ted's mail, but screens out some other 
# nuisances!
:0
* From:.*turnbull
| cat >/dev/null

If you run your own mailer and don't use procmail, why not?  It is really 
convenient for sorting mail from lists.

Note that the standard Linux installation puts procmail in 
/usr/local/bin, and if your mail transport agent is smail, you to put
"| /usr/local/bin/procmail" in your .forward, or smail won't find it 
(smail truncates $PATH to "/bin:/usr/bin" for security reasons).

ciao.

-- 
                            Stephen J. Turnbull
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences                    Yaseppochi-Gumi
University of Tsukuba                      http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba, 305 JAPAN                 turnbull@example.com

On 14 Mar 1996 TMatsumu@example.com wrote:

> Form: Reply
> Header: Adaptec
> Text: (37 lines follow)
> below is book review from the mbone list.  I'm considering buying from 
[snip, snip, snip]