 on wed NUMBER oct NUMBER jason jason rennie wrote jason my sysadmins have told me that the sending mail client jason is supposed to escape lines begining with from your sysadmins are wrong whatever program that is used to store the mail into the braindead mailbox file var spool mail whatever is supposed to escape a line that begins with from that program is called the local mail delivery agent mda it would be better if you never ever stored your mail in a mailbox file if your sysadmins are capable of it get them to set up the receiving mail transfer agent mta to allow the use of procmail as the local mda then use procmail to invoke rcvstore and deliver your mail directly into your mh mail folders most linux systems come configured this way if a user has a home procmail file then mail is delivered using procmail hal _______________________________________________ exmh users mailing list exmh users URL URL 