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From: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Missing text when printing
Message-ID: <4729@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 19 Feb 89 17:09:53 GMT
References: <447@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM> <63@dsinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@pbhyf.PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
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Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <63@dsinc.UUCP> syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein) writes:

+How we solved this problem for the future is we extended Elm to try
+and cope with non RFC 822 mailers.  We now define the end of the
+header as the first line that doesn't look like a header or a header
+continuation line.  We can still get confused by lines that look
+like headers, so it isn't a total fix.
+(A header is a line starting in column 1 and containing a :, or a line
+following a header line that starts with whitespace)

And the only way to know if a header-appearing line is not a header
is to divine the sender's intentions, which, for the time being,
not a possibility with ELM :-)
-- 
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