Re: Why does this happen?

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From: Richard A. Schafer
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1991 17:09

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This happens because of a test to attempt to determine whether or not
the note in question is an IBM NOTE format message.  Because NOTE
format headers are *not* deterministicly parsable, never having been
designed for a real mail handler at the receving end, and because
the user may have RECEIVEd a NOTE into his notebook, I have to attempt
to figure out (and internally rebuild) things as I work with a message.

Clearly the test is a bit simple minded, since it fails on things like
Scott shows in his original message.  However, his sample message is
in some since even worse: it's neither RFC822 *nor* NOTE format, and
frankly clearly shows that PROFS Ext. Mail really is a lousy
hack, if it generates such seriously munged headers like the one shown.

Richard

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