Thursday, June 06, 2002, Julian Beach (Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thursday, June 6, 2002, 8:52:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I find that if I mime-formard the original message to myself, save the
>> attachment, then import it, I can see the first paragraph.
>> Does anyone have any idea why I am not seeing the first paragraph in
>> the ORIGINAL message with the abbreviated headers? i.e. why the first
>> paragraph is displayed ONLY when the full header (RCF-822 headers) is
>> on?
> I think that the "why" is the easy part - for some reason, TB thinks
> that the first paragraph is part of the header, and is not displaying
> it. TB and other email software identifies the end of the header and
> the start of the message text by an empty line (a line which only has
> a new line character on it.
> Perhaps, as I think that some others have mentioned, there is a space
> on the "blank" lines. IIRC, TB will strip surplus spaces when it is
> reformatting messages, so maybe the message is being reformatted and
> the spaces stripped at some point in the process of forwarding the
> message, saving the attachment, and re-importing. Other than that, I
> don't have a clue.
> Do you have MS Word or a similar program installed? Display the
> message with the RCF-822 headers displayed, and then copy all of the
> text and paste it to a blank document in Word. If Word does not show
> non-printing characters (tabs, spaces, etc) by default enable this by
> going to Tools|Options|View and in the Formatting Marks section,
> select [ALL]. Then check the message, and see if there is anything
> other than just a paragraph mark on the lines between the Subject:
> line in the headers, and the first paragraph.
> Julian
I copy and paste it to a blank document in Word. There are 2 blank
lines between the full header and the first paragraph -- just 2
paragraph marks.
Just in case it makes a difference, the last 2 lines in the header are:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
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Thanks in advance
JM
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