From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/21771 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shane Holder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: bad (i.e. serious) mail problems Date: 04 Mar 1999 16:55:08 -0600 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035159813 24649 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:23:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:23:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29908 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:51:38 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAB09931; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:50:53 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 04 Mar 1999 16:51:17 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA05721 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:51:09 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from atlrel2.hp.com (atlrel2.hp.com [156.153.255.202]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA29893 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:51:00 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from dmail2.rsn.hp.com (dmail2.rsn.hp.com [15.99.151.1]) by atlrel2.hp.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_14041)/8.8.5tis) with ESMTP id RAA02024; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:50:07 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from PANIC.rsn.hp.com (panic.rsn.hp.com [15.99.148.159]) by dmail2.rsn.hp.com with SMTP (8.7.1/8.7.1) id QAA11981; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:50:16 -0600 (CST) Original-To: Harry Putnam In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "04 Mar 1999 12:50:25 -0800" Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.070079 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.79) XEmacs/21.0(beta62) (Pyrenean) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21771 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:21771 >>>>> "Harry" == Harry Putnam writes: Shane> Not a duplicate, but a `>' got inserted in front of one of Shane> the From headers. When I deleted this character the article Shane> showed up in the summary. When I looked at the Shane> Incoming... file it did not contain this character. Now, I Shane> suppose you're thinking well when I edited the file somehow Shane> this got inserted, which is possible, but I didn't edit the Shane> nnfolder file until I realized that something strange was Shane> going on. >> I just had this happen again, still under .79. I searched through my >> nnfolder mail.misc file and noticed that there were about 3 other >> articles that had a > in front of the From header. Harry> Hope this isn't off the wall but, could this be done by what Harry> ever application is retrieving your mail? (assuming Gnus is Harry> not) Mail handling apps put a (>) in front of all lines Harry> beginning with "From" to avoid confusing them with the Unix Harry> format line beginning with "From" but no colon. Gnus is doing the retrival. And the > insertion is coming between the creation of the Incoming... file, and when the article gets inserted into nnfolder. Shane