[maildropl] Re: maildrop 1.3.7 adds a blank line before generated 'From ' lines

[Sam V. <mr...@co...>]

David Laight writes: 

> This is a littel problem I found using maildrop under NetBSD. 
> 
> (NetBsd bug pkg/15568) 
> 
> If maildrop has to create a 'From ' line at the start of a mail item
> then it erronously includes a blank line before it. 
> 
> This causes some MUA (eg mutt) to complain that /var/mail/xyz isn't
> a valid mailbox. 
> 
> Even the maildrop man page says:
> 	At  least  one  mail program writes an empty line before a
> 	From_ header when saving a message into a  file.  maildrop
> 	ignores  empty lines at the beginning of messages.

Correct.  Some do, some don't.  There is no way to please everyone. 

-- 
Sam