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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: <19240.257a6747@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 89 18:47:03 GMT
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In article <24.2577cc94@bio.embnet.se>, Mats.Sundvall@bio.embnet.se writes:
> 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.

The original question concerned the handling of MAIL using OPEN/MAIL.  In this
context, some messages will have RFC822 headers and some won't.  Suppose I
have a mail message that was delivered via VMS MAIL that starts out (in the
body of the message):

Problem: NEWS doesn't handle this correctly.

Should this be treated as a header line or not?  Remember that some messages
in a MAIL file will contain headers, and some will not.  How do you tell the
two apart?
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