At 15:57 -0400 28 Jul 2000, Charlie Summers <charlie@lofcom.com> wrote:
precise question is, why/how does formail send multiple lines from the header to the script? Shouldn't it only send the X-Command: header line w/o the following indented lines? (This is why I wanted to do this privately; I'm
No, it should (and does) include the following indented lines, since they're still part of the X-Command: header field.
forced to point out holes in my knowledge of the C programs.)
This isn't really about the C programs. It's about RFC 822, which says that a new line in the header should be ignored if it's followed by whitespace. -- Aaron Schrab aaron@schrab.com http://www.execpc.com/~aarons/ Killing bad guys is such fun, too bad we only captured one, are there any more out there? -- Blues Traveler, "Psycho Joe"