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Article #9587Re: vm-visible-headers depends on header line order
From: J.D.
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 15:39
Date: Fri, 03 May 1991 15:39
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In gnu.emacs.vm.bug you write: >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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f6829,5495f0582b7bb7b5 X-Google-Attributes: gidf6829,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-05-04 00:59:50 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!ira.uka.de!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!crdgw1!uunet!wendy-fate.uu.net!bug-vm From: JSPARKES@BNR.CA (J.D.) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.vm.bug Subject: Re: vm-visible-headers depends on header line order Message-ID: <91May3.113958edt.23307@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Date: 3 May 91 15:39:00 GMT Sender: bug-vm-request@uunet.uu.net Lines: 33