I don't know what it means but I notice that if I run show all header fields show up despite being ignored in both mhl.format and mhl.headers. However, if I use Paul Fox's ml script and run ml on the message those header fields are gone.
In message <[email protected]>, [email protected] writes: >In message <[email protected]>, Ken Hornstein= > writes: >> >>Is it possible the "certain mail" that ignores mhl.headers are not >>MIME messages? Specifically, do those messages meet the following >>criteria: >> >>- Either lack a top-level Content-Type header, or contain a Content-Type >> header that specifies text/plain with either a us-ascii character >> set or your native character set >>- Either lack a Content-Transfer-Encoding header, or contain a C-T-E >> header specifying an encoding of 7bit, 8bit, or binary. >> >>If the message is considered "text" (by passing BOTH of the above >>tests), then "show" will run mhl to display the message, which uses >>mhl.format to display the ENTIRE messages. >> >>If the message is considered "nontext" (by failing either one of the >>above tests) then "show" runs "mhshow" to display the message, which >>uses mhl to display the headers (which by default uses mhl.headers) >>and then decodes parts of the msssage body that it can. >> >>So if you want to exclude headers in ALL messages, you need to put >>them in both mhl.headers and mhl.format. That's because of nmh's >>incomplete MIME handling. Sigh. >> >>--Ken > >This particular message has the following header field: > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >From: Arthur Alinovi <[email protected]> >Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) >Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022 17:55:10 -0500 > >After copying all of my "ignore" lines from ~/Mail/mhl.headers to >~/Mail/mhl.format, they still show up. > >Mr Paul Fox wonders if having the ignores lines broken up as I do will >work or if they should be one long line which he says is how he has it. > >Thank you > >Arthur >
