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From: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Missing text when printing
Message-ID: <84@dsinc.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 89 14:33:24 GMT
References: <447@ciss.Dayton.NCR.COM> <63@dsinc.UUCP> <7779@chinet.chi.il.us> <76@dsinc.UUCP> <7826@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc., Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006
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In article <7826@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <76@dsinc.UUCP> syd@dsinc.UUCP (Syd Weinstein) writes:
>But it is a solution to the same problem, just done by a different program
>(the /bin/mail that comes with PMX).  On inbound messages from other
>systems that do not have the blank line it must figure out where the
>end of the previous headers is to insert the Content-Type etc. headers.
>Elm could do likewise.  Seems a little nicer than discarding the content.
Again, if the message does not have a content-type/content-length already
in them, and the messages in question, from cron, didn't, Elm would still
have to guess where the content started even if it did add the headers.

What happens is without the blank line, Elm would guess wrong and put
in Content headers which still said the relavant text was headers.

Either you make your headers RFC822 complient, or Elm can misguess.
Elm 2.2 is a  little better about guessing, but without trying to
understand the content of the message itself, its impossible to be
any better than that.  And Elm is not an expert shell.


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