Re: Apple mail
Alain and others.
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:58:28PM +0200, Alain Bench wrote:
> On Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at 9:18:45 +1000, Brian Salter-Duke wrote:
>
> > The full headers are:- [private]
>
> Thanks. This header and the previously posted body don't match.
> I assume it's a mistake, and it comes from the other broken mail, right?
> Anyway: This full header is completely broken, lacking any Content-Type,
> Apple Mail tag, Received, and most fields out of Date/From/To/Subject
> and those added by Mutt itself. No mystery it didn't display well, and
> I even doubt the mail reached you in this form. However the enveloppe in
> From_ is OK...
>
> So something destroyed the original header, probably on your side.
> What? I'd first suspect:
>
> - Some evil procmail rule shortening headers.
> - Some evil "detacher" script.
> - Some evil mail archiving program like pipermail or such.
>
> Can you investigate in this direction? Such munging has to be
> stopped from the beginning, there is no proper way to cleanup it
> afterwards. BTW it's also quite possible that the broken special chars
> in your mails come from the same munging.
I fear I have been wasting your time. This mail was in a list digest
which I split using matamutt and a script that fixes some badly formed
headers from some lists. the From line comes from those scripts.
metamutt adds the sFfrom line. My script cleans up bad From: lines before
that. I have nothing in .procmailrc that touches headers.
However, the e-mail looks exactly the same if I do not split it. I
actually split on the fly with a mutt macro tied to a key. I think this
philchem list is even more broken than some I have come across. It does
not keep several headers such as content type. Nevertheless I think the
individual apple mail message is also broken but there is not way of
telling if the digest process gets it wrong. I guess the list digest
comes from pipermail.
It is'nt a particularly busy list. Some e-mails are so badly misformed
it is not worth bothering with them. Thanks for your help. I have at
least learn something.
Cheers, Brian.
>
> Bye! Alain.
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