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From: sylvain@burden (Sylvain Langlois)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: problems splitting up /usr/spool/mail/*
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Date: 2 Oct 89 10:32:04 GMT
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> POP server expect the mailbox in POP format (a POP defined delimiter
> between msgs is required) so it can break up msgs in>  mailbox. To do
> this, MH has a program (slocal) that will add delimiter to every msg.
> You have to pipe incoming msg through slocal by creating .forward file
> in the user home directory. Look mh/uip/slocal.c for detail.

I'm not using POP locally, so I suspect the bug (if any) is somewhere
else. However I've noticed that slocal coming with MH-6.5 may not work
correctly: I've tried to use MH to behave like the "vacation" from
BSD, using some temporary folders, and I cannot get it working.
Everything seems to show that "slocal" is not processing my stuff the
way I want it to do. I'm suspecting slocal but this may be due also to
some mistake in the MH macros I wrote (simple shell-scripts). Since
I'm pretty overloaded at the moment I cannot track bugs any further. I
wish I had time to do it!

> By the way MH6.6 is available from louie.udel.edu:portal/mh-6.6.tar.Z
I know. I've got the new sources here but no time to go through the
all installation process. Maybe next week...!

Thanks for replying anyway...

Sylvain
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Sylvain Langlois		  "Dogmatic attachement to the supposed merits
(sylvain@chorus.fr)		   of a particular structure hinders the search
(sylvain%chorus.fr@uunet.uu.net)   of an appropriate structure" (Robert Fripp)