Jon Steinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> The enclosed message causes problems for nmh-1.0.4 from the NetBSD 
>> packages collection.  It prints the headers, along with the message:

>>      mhshow: bogus multipart content in message 1256

>> Alas, I don't know the mail RFCs well enough to pin the blame on the
>> IETF editor or NMH.  Any ideas?

>> Thanks,

>> Kevin
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

>mhshow is right.  It is bogus multipart content.  Notice that the boundary specified
>on the content-type line is "NextPart".  This means that "--NextPart" lines are
>boundary markers.  But, in the remainder of the document they're "- --NextPart".

You are wrong there.  The "- --NextPart" comes from the encapsulation
used by "forw".  Extract the message with "burst" to remove that.

>Also, there should be a boundary after the headers.  As the document is written
>everything in it is commentary that may not be displayed by a mail reader.

You are correct there.

In other tests:

  "pine" sees it as an empty malformed message.
  "exmh" sees it as an empty message.
  "mutt" displays the message.

 -NWR

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