On 2026-01-26 14:30:01 -0500, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 02:53:43PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I have even one with "From Sun,07 Jul 1996.01:27:59". Mutt 2.3 > > silently ignores the whole contents starting at this line. > > No return path field at all, and a date-time that's neither the usual > ctime() syntax nor lifted from the RFC 822 Date: header. > > I suppose that line would not be recognized by the new code intended to > handle the other two lines above. > > Do you know what software wrote those bizarre things?
FYI, the "From " line and headers of the mail (with just the To hidden): From Sun,07 Jul 1996.01:27:59 From: [email protected] (Vincent Lefevre) To: [email protected] Cc: vlefevre Subject: Mail et news Reply-To: [email protected] Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 01:18:30 +0200 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon X-Mailer: Archimedes TTFN Version 0.36 Since there are no "Received:" lines, I suppose that this mail was copied from the mbox format used by TTFN. > Are they all from July and August of 1996? For such a "From " line, only this message (which was the first mail I had sent with TTFN, AFAIK). All the other ones have "Received:" lines, which means that I probably copied from some Unix machine. There's a strange one, however: From Vincent.Lefevre (Vincent Lefevre)@lip.ens-lyon.fr Sun Jul 07 00:56:21 1996 Received: from vlefevre (pm-vlefevre [140.77.200.99]) by lip.ens-lyon.fr (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA16991; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 00:53:33 +0200 (MET DST) To: xxx Cc: [email protected] From: Vincent.Lefevre (Vincent Lefevre) Subject: Re: utilisation de votre CPU Reply-To: Vincent.Lefevre References: <[email protected]> In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:52:40 +0200 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon X-Mailer: Archimedes TTFN Version 0.36 and another one, with ELM: From Vincent Lefevre <Vincent.Lefevre>@lip.ens-lyon.fr Fri Jul 12 13:54:03 1996 Received: from woodstock.ens-lyon.fr (woodstock [140.77.11.50]) by lip.ens-lyon.fr (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01230; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:46:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Vincent Lefevre <Vincent.Lefevre> Received: (from vlefevre@localhost) by woodstock.ens-lyon.fr (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA11228; Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:46:59 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: URGENT: tests To: xxx Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 22:46:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: [email protected] (Vincent Lefevre) [...] X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] [...] -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
