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From: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: 822 header lines in MAIL messages
Message-ID: <19095.257659eb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 1 Dec 89 17:00:59 GMT
References: <13035.257507d4@ccavax.camb.com>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <13035.257507d4@ccavax.camb.com>, tinkelman@ccavax.camb.com writes:
> I've just started playing with OPEN/MAIL.  (Thanks Geoff.)  One of the things
> I had assumed it would do better than VMS mail was to understand RFC822
> headers for all of the mail I receive over PMDF.  Well, at least I wanted it
> to act like it does for news items, not showing the header lines unless I
> do a READ/HEADER.  However it doesn't seem to distinguish these lines from
> the body text.  Is there a way to make it do this?  Do others agree that this
> would be desirable?

This sounds like a good idea, but it might be a little hard to implement.
Consider a mail message where the first line of the actual body of the message
looks like a header line, for example "Problem:" or something like that.
Currently, NEWS stops processing headers when it finds a null line after a
Newsgroups: header.  Since mail messages seldom have Newsgroups: header, how
do you decide where the headers end and the body of the message begins?
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