OT: Mysterious line break and space

[Sivakatirswami]

I use a Revolution app that I built to generate our daily "Hindu  
Press International News" service.... (recently added RSS feed with  
Andre's help)

It's pretty basic: the managing editor actually uses it: pastes some  
daily stories into a field, the app then builds and uploads some web  
pages from that and generates a multi-part text plus HTML email and I  
pipe this out from sendMail which is running on his local box (OSX,  
enabled with postFix) to our mail server: Communigate Pro. Simple  
with Rev...

Once the file is built it goes out like this:

  # fix endlines to unix and then save to file
   replace numTochar(13) with numTochar (10) in tMsg

# save to disk (only way to pass it we could find...)

put ($HOME &"/Desktop/temp.txt") into tPath
   put tMsg into url ("binfile:" & tPath)

# Do the shell thing and send mail
   set the shellcommand to "/bin/sh"
   put "cat " & quote & tPath & quote & " | sendmail -f  
hpi.list at hindu.org " & (fld "to" of cd "staticText")  into tCmd

  # check on status
   put shell(tCmd) into tResult
   if tResult is empty then
     answer "Mail was sent...." with "OK"
   else
     answer tResult with "OK"
     delete file tPath
   end if

Now we are noticing, that the loooong mac lines are
being broken at around 990 chars with a  li
  ne ending and space,  like what you are see
  ing here...

we see a return and a space introduced somewhere. In the plain text  
version we get the full gremlin: a line break and a space. The html  
version ignores the line break but we see a s pace... I suspect a  
CRLF is being introduced somewhere in the pipeline and this is how it  
ends up looking in mail.app. We are totally at a lost as to what to  
do to fix this. I've examined the source all the way thru my script  
and tMsg file that is piped to sendMail is "clean"

Any insights will be appreciated

Sivakatirswami
Himalayan Academy Publications
at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
katir at hindu.org

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