On Monday, July 22, 2019 11:52:59 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:40:59AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > > * but when I view source in my email client (kmail 3.n), I see just > > the "* > > > > From: Reco" that I see when viewing the email "normally". > > > > So, it seems, something is filtering out a lot of the content of the > > email before it gets to me (I don't think anything else in my system > > would be filtering anything out -- emails come directly from my ISP to > > my email client. > > > > A mystery that I won't dig into any deeper for now. > > Well, there are two possibilities. One is that the messages are actually > being truncated during transmission. The other is that your email user > agent is not showing you the full message text. > > The obvious way to figure out which one it is would be to read the email > in a different way (cat, less, mutt, mailx, ...).
Ok, that fooled me -- I expected that the kmail command "view source" would let me see the entire email regardless of how it might be "rendered" in the kmail text box, but I was wrong. When I view that email in kwrite, I see all of the content, and, then around the email address ([email protected], after the * From: Reco in the body of the email I see two characters that look like triangles -- I'll try looking at those in hexedit... Ok, it looks like there is a 0x00 in the byte before the email address (which is presumably disabling all further rendering in this version of kmail (1.13.7, on kde 4.8.4), and a 0x09 in the byte after the email address. So, I guess I have a way to send secret messages (to, at least, myself ;-)
