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Bug forwarding MMDF mail in 5.31

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From: kyle
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1991 19:41
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Steve Baumgarten writes:
 > I just got the 5.31beta.tar.Z file from uunet and have found what
 > looks like a minor bug in the way MMDF-style mail is forwarded when
 > using the "z" key (vm-forward-message).
 > 
 > When forwarding such a message, the last line of the mail buffer looks
 > like this:
 > 
 > ^A^A^A^A------- End of forwarded message -------
 > 
 > Where the "^A" characters above are the control-A's that MMDF uses as
 > message separators.
 > 
 > This works fine with 4.41, by the way.

Hmmm, OK, I must have forgotten something, somewhere.

 > Also, the forwarded message contains the "X-VM-v5-Data:" line, which
 > doesn't seem to be appropriate for forwarding.  After all, doesn't
 > that line reflect information specific to your mailbox and your VM
 > settings?

Quite right, this header will be going away.
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Subject: Bug forwarding MMDF mail in 5.31
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