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Re: vm-visible-headers depends on header line order

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From: J.D.
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 15:39
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>Jeffrey (J.D.) Sparkes writes:
> >         Given the message included at the end, VM does not hide all of
> > headers not specified in vm-visible-headers. Specifically, it does not
> > hide any of the headers after the first "Date:".  Unfortunately, my
> > mail passes through a mainframe which moves the headers that it
> > understands to the front.  (This is VM 5.31, with vm-visible-headers
> > and vm-invisible-header-regexp set to their default values.)
> > [...]
> > Subject:    Linking info
> > Date:        2 May 91 09:37:00 EDT
> > Received from utorugw by BNR.CA (Mailer R2.04) with BSMTP id 3361; Thu, 02 M
ay
> >  91 09:37:13 EDT

>The problem is the malformed Received header above.  There's no
>colon after "Received", therefore it's not a header, and
>therefore VM thinks the header section of the message has ended.
>All the rest of the headers are left in the never-never-land
>between the header and text sections.  Thanks go to Bill
>Carpenter for pointing out the real problem to me via private
>e-mail.

>The solution is to get your mailer fixed.  Feeding non-RFC822
>standard messages into VM voids your warranty. :-)

Thanks for pointing this out.  It was actually my screwup; I attempt
to reassemble the headers after they've been scrambled by the above
mentioned broken mailer.  I missed by one colon.
--
Jeff Sparkes jsparkes@bnr.ca	Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa (613)765-2503
Never trust a psychic who hasn't won the lottery.  Twice.
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Subject: Re: vm-visible-headers depends on header line order
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