[14160] in Athena Bugs
Techmail 2.3a5 header parsing bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
Mon Feb 5 17:56:35 1996
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 96 17:57:38
From: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby)
To: techmail@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
Since switching to TM2.3a5 I've noticed a lot more cases where TechMail could
not parse the mail headers for the mailbox scan listing and left the date,
to/from, and/or subject field(s) blank or with "??????".
Here are some examples:
on this one the date is "??????" and the other fields are fine.
------- Forwarded Message
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 96 14:43:22 EST
X-Sender: jwl@po7.mit.edu
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
To: mlc@MIT.EDU (Mark Curby. E40-342G. x3-7725)
From: Joanne Larrabee <jwl@MIT.EDU> (Joanne Larrabee. 253-8422. 11-221)
Subject: TM-S
>Resent-Date: Sun, 04 Feb 96 12:33:20 EST
>Resent-From: Harold Pakulat <PAKULAT@mitvma.mit.edu>
[...]
------- End of Forwarded Message
On this one the from/to field was blank and the other fields were fine.
------- Forwarded Message
From: guardian@MIT.EDU
To: reuse@MIT.EDU
Subject: 9-pin dot matrix printer
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 1996 09:55:45 EST
What:
Star NX-1001 9-pin dot matrix printer
4 print ribbons
most of a box of continuous feed paper
[...]
------- End of Forwarded Message
On this one the date was ?????? and both the from/to and the subject field
were blank.
------- Forwarded Message
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 14:40:36 -0500 (EST)
From: Yueh Zenas Lee <yueh@yellow-brick-road.mit.edu>
To: reuse@MIT.EDU
Subject: Super 8 mm editor?
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Hi,
I picked up this 8mm film editor with some other things... I have
absolutely no use for it. Email me if you wanna have it. It's even got a
nice cardboard box to go with it.
I may also have an 8mm movie camera...
-Yueh
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Yueh Z. Lee Home:(617)-876-4591
516 Green St. Apt 1A Lab: (617)-253-5419
Cambridge, MA 02139 email: ray_lee@mit.edu (or)
http://yellow-brick-road.mit.edu/ yueh@yellow-brick-road.mit.edu
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Before, with 2.3a2 this hapened about 1/1000 of the time or less, now with a5
it has been hapening with about 1/4 of my email messages. I don't recall
a4's behavior.
Also just FYI, a5 still does not update an old configuration file so that
"use signature file" is preserved. Yeah i know, I could trash and rebuild my
config file but I'm too lazy.
- Mark
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