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From: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail on sunOS 4.0
Summary: Nope, your info is bogus
Message-ID: <11232@jade.BBN.COM>
Date: 13 Jul 88 14:16:50 GMT
References: <4442@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Reply-To: mlandau@bbn.com (Matt Landau)
Organization: BBN Laboratories Incorporated, Cambridge, MA
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In comp.mail.misc (<4442@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>), dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU 
(Dan Heller) writes:
>I just heard some very disturbing news about Mail on sunos 4.0.
>Apparently, messages no longer have the string:
>	From  
>at the beginning of each message.  Instead, the string looks like:
>	From 

I don't know where you heard this, but I just tested mail between 
4.0FCS on a Sun-386i and 3.4 on a Sun-3, and your news appears to 
be wrong.  I sent all possible combinations of local and remote mail 
in both directions, and the Unix-style "From " lines appear to be 
correct everywhere.
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