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From: ELSEN@esat.kuleuven.ac.be (Marc Elsen)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: add file for VMSmail extracted files broken?
Message-ID: <1506@esat.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 9 Sep 89 08:44:47 GMT
References: <8909070205.AA07083@vrdxhq.verdix.com> <10834@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,ESAT - dep. Elect. Engineering, Belgium
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In article <10834@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes:
> In article <8909070205.AA07083@vrdxhq.verdix.com>,
>  "Seton R. Droppers" <sdroppers%PBS.uucp@uunet.uu.net> writes:
>> I have noticed that when I attempt to add a group of mail messages that have
>> been extracted from VMS mail that the ADD FILE function of news does not
>> recognize the the VMS mail headers for the first message that has been extracted
>> into the file.  The sender is marked as "unknown" and the subject is marked as
>> "<NONE>".  We are running news 5.8A.  Is this a know problem and are there any
>> workarounds?
> 
> This is very odd.  I receive my main feed via mail, and am having no problem
> with it.  I just use the MAIL EXTRACT command and then the NEWS ADD FILE
> command and everything works fine.  Could you send me a sample mail file that
> demonstrates the problem, and the DCL that you use to process the mail?

  I can confirm this problem however ! Further more you can see
that for the first item extracted the real sender and subject lines appear
as normal text within the article when  it is brought into NEWS.

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  Marc Elsen (System Manager/Software Engineer)
  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  Dep. E.S.A.T.
  Kard. Mercierlaan 94
  3030 HEVERLEE
  Belgium
              tel. 32(0)16220931(ext. 1080)

               EMAIL : elsen@esat.kuleuven.ac.be

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