[16969] in Athena Bugs

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sun4 8.3.10: mh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Camilla R Fox)
Mon Jul 26 04:27:52 1999

Message-Id: <199907260827.EAA12820@sweet-transvestite.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 04:27:41 -0400
From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>

System name:		sweet-transvestite.mit.edu
Type and version:	Ultra-5_10 8.3.10 (with mkserv)
                        (this also happens on 8.3.13 machines)
Display type:		ffb

Shell:			/bin/athena/tcsh

What were you trying to do?
  Read mail with nmh.

What's wrong:
  The message is plain text, but has headers:
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: text/plain
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: x-unknown
    X-Mailer: Balsa 0.4.9
  Instead of just showing it to me, show prints the header, then:
    mhshow: don't know how to decode content
            (content text/plain in message 365)
  and nothing else.

What should have happened:
  On a machine with mh rather than nmh, the entire message is readable.
  (the content is in fact readable text)

Please describe any relevant documentation references:
  Here's stuff that might be relevant from my .mh_profile:
    showproc: more
  Let me know if the mail message in question is useful in debugging
  this.

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