Alain and others. On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:58:28PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote: > On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 9:18:45 +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > The full headers are:- [private] > > Thanks. This header and the previously posted body don't match. > I assume it's a mistake, and it comes from the other broken mail, right? > Anyway: This full header is completely broken, lacking any Content-Type, > Apple Mail tag, Received, and most fields out of Date/From/To/Subject > and those added by Mutt itself. No mystery it didn't display well, and > I even doubt the mail reached you in this form. However the enveloppe in > From_ is OK... > > So something destroyed the original header, probably on your side. > What? I'd first suspect: > > - Some evil procmail rule shortening headers. > - Some evil "detacher" script. > - Some evil mail archiving program like pipermail or such. > > Can you investigate in this direction? Such munging has to be > stopped from the beginning, there is no proper way to cleanup it > afterwards. BTW it's also quite possible that the broken special chars > in your mails come from the same munging.
I fear I have been wasting your time. This mail was in a list digest which I split using matamutt and a script that fixes some badly formed headers from some lists. the From line comes from those scripts. metamutt adds the sFfrom line. My script cleans up bad From: lines before that. I have nothing in .procmailrc that touches headers. However, the e-mail looks exactly the same if I do not split it. I actually split on the fly with a mutt macro tied to a key. I think this philchem list is even more broken than some I have come across. It does not keep several headers such as content type. Nevertheless I think the individual apple mail message is also broken but there is not way of telling if the digest process gets it wrong. I guess the list digest comes from pipermail. It is'nt a particularly busy list. Some e-mails are so badly misformed it is not worth bothering with them. Thanks for your help. I have at least learn something. Cheers, Brian. > > Bye! Alain. > -- > Everything about locales on Sven Mascheck's excellent site at new > location <URL:http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/>. The little tester > utility is at <URL:http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/checklocale.c>. -- "One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork." -- Mark Twain Brian Salter-Duke (Brian Duke) Email: b_duke(AT)bigpond(DOT)net(DOT)au
