Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!bmc!bio.embnet.se!mats
From: Mats.Sundvall@bio.embnet.se
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: 822 header lines in MAIL messages
Message-ID: <24.2577cc94@bio.embnet.se>
Date: 2 Dec 89 12:22:28 GMT
References: <13035.257507d4@ccavax.camb.com> <19095.257659eb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Organization: Embnet node in Sweden at Biomedical Center, University of Uppsala, Sweden
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In article <19095.257659eb@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
> In article <13035.257507d4@ccavax.camb.com>, tinkelman@ccavax.camb.com writes:

> 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?
> -- 
> USmail: Bob Sloane, University of Kansas Computer Center, Lawrence, KS, 66045
> E-mail: sloane@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu, sloane@ukanvax.bitnet, AT&T: (913)864-0444 

I think the RFC says, body of message start after the first empty line.
A problem is if the message has been within VMS Mail that only handles 
Subject: CC: and From: the other headers will end up in the body of the message.

	Mats Sundvall