What happened to "From "????

Greetings: Going bonkers with this after many reliable years of eMail
with the so called Unix From_ line; the envelope address; first line
of every message. (Or it used to be)

Trying to upgrade to Slack10.1, 2.4.29, for other reasons I like, but
can't get mail working using either the bundled getmail 4.X or
fetchmail 6.X /or/ getmail 3.X as a trial.. Once you get them to
fetch the mail I find each message is sans the From_ line so Mutt
says sth like "Not a mail directory." This must be common as Googling
reports many queries but no solutions.. The latest, I have, Mail
HOWTO's still speak about From_ and the /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN
file... All my books explain the same..

This "change" is probably for security reasons, whatever, but it has
me stumped.. Is there a valid recent tutorial on the subject??

A small operation I don't want to change to Qmail, Postmail or any
others just to start the learning curve again..

Any comments or suggestions.. And, Ray, I know this isn't very
detailed because I have at least six pages of notes so far.. <grin>

TIA and Cheers,
-- 

    Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0   (2.4.20-1)
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