Re: [Nmh-workers] 128 byte field name limit in NAMESZ breaks scan(1)

[rader]

 > I think this has been reported on the bug tracking system before.
 > (https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?14975)
 > 
 > What I want to know is why you have files in your ~/Mail/whatever/
 > with envelope 'From ' lines in the first place. The usual path
 > via inc doesn't have them (I think because they are the delimiters
 > in a mail spool file and so get stripped out as the messages are
 > split). 

Fwiw, I had this problem a couple days ago when I
blindly migrated from slocal to procmail... I hadn't
read doc/MAIL.FILTERING, so I didn't have the...

 :0 Whf
 | formail -z -R 'From ' X-Envelope-From:

...magic.

steve
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 > So perhaps this bug should be fixed by making whatever
 > path you're using to put messages in the folder strip out the
 > envelope From as inc does.