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Eric Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 18:43:17 +0100
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On    Tue,    18   Feb    1997    12:40:58    -0500   Valdis    Kletnieks
<[log in to unmask]> said:

>I remember that  I went around and  around with Eric on  this many moons
>ago,  and  he  made a  code  change  for  1.8B  on Unix  that  let  MIME
>attachments work much  better - I have  no idea if it ever  made it into
>the VM code. (The problem was that the base Listserv code always smashed
>a null  line to a  one-blank line for VM's  benefit, even if  not needed
>under Unix).  If this change is  in the VM  code, you *might* get  it to
>work correctly  if SMTP/LMail/Listserv/Mailbook are *all*  configured to
>use NETDATA rather than PUNCH.

This change is not applicable to VM. However, given the way FAL generates
Netdata files,  LISTSERV is guaranteed  to get a  line with one  blank as
input, which will be echoed as a line with one blank.

  Eric

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