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Line breaks in mail spool
Hi,

I have an issue with the line breaks in the mail spool- /var/mail/user1. I have set up a script to go through the mail spool on one of the users and parse some parts of the mail, however there doesn't seem to exist the regular line endings CR, LF or both in the lines and this is breaking my script. The mails are sent from a java application to a POP3 account on exchange 2013 server and then I pull them with fetchmail and use postfix on the local server as MDA.
Actually the issue comes from the fact that there is 78 characters line wrapping of the plain text mail body, which breaks the lines and cannot grep correctly- I then tried to remove the line breaks with sed, but since I cannot find the new line character that is used I cannot replace it with sed. Any ideas on on how to find what new line char is used or how to remove the line wrapping from the body would be much appreciated.
 
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uuxqt

uuxqt(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 uuxqt(1M)

NAME

       uuxqt - execute remote command requests

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/lib/uucp/uuxqt [-s system] [-x debug-level]

DESCRIPTION

       uuxqt  is  the  program	that  executes remote job requests from remote systems generated by the use of the uux command. (mail uses uux for
       remote mail requests). uuxqt searches the spool directories looking for execution requests. For each request, uuxqt checks to  see  if  all
       the required data files are available, accessible, and the requested commands are permitted for the requesting system. The Permissions file
       is used to validate file accessibility and command execution permission.

       There are two environment variables that are set before the uuxqt command is executed:

	   o	  UU_MACHINE is the machine that sent the job (the previous one).

	   o	  UU_USER is the user that sent the job.

       These can be used in writing commands that remote systems can execute to provide information, auditing, or restrictions.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -s system	 Specifies the remote system name.

       -x debug-level	 debug-level is a number from 0 to 9. Higher numbers give more detailed debugging information.

FILES

       /etc/uucp/Limits

       /etc/uucp/Permissions

       /var/spool/locks/*

       /var/spool/uucp/*

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbnuu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       mail(1), uucp(1C), uustat(1C), uux(1C), uucico(1M),  attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11							    19 May 1993 							 uuxqt(1M)