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Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com> writes:

> Then the mail server is messing up, because there *must* be one.  The
> Unix mail separator is "\nFrom ...".  The newline must be there to
> distinguish one message from the next.

Actually, I read recently that "^From ..." is the separator.  Any
reasonable mail agent ought to produce only "\nFrom ", but should
accept any line beginning with "From " as beginning a new message,
regardless of whether or not it was preceeded by a blank.

John.