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* mail-header-extract and the From line
@ 1997-03-18 18:15 Robert Bihlmeyer
  1997-03-19 13:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Robert Bihlmeyer @ 1997-03-18 18:15 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi,

`mail-header-extract' will break (i.e. find no headers) if the article
in question features "From xyz" as it's first line. This is normally
no problem - at least for the backends I use -, as Gnus correctly
rewrites this into a normal header (X-From-Line).

But somehow (with procmail, perhaps even by using peculiar backends)
one can trick Gnus to read an article with an initial From line. Is
this strictly verboten anyway, or should `mail-header-extract' be
changed to grok the From as a special case.

	Robbe

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Robert Bihlmeyer	reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!
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* Re: mail-header-extract and the From line
  1997-03-18 18:15 mail-header-extract and the From line Robert Bihlmeyer
@ 1997-03-19 13:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  1997-03-24 12:29   ` Robert Bihlmeyer
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1997-03-19 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw)


Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.ping.at> writes:

> `mail-header-extract' will break (i.e. find no headers) if the article
> in question features "From xyz" as it's first line. This is normally
> no problem - at least for the backends I use -, as Gnus correctly
> rewrites this into a normal header (X-From-Line).

Yes -- but does Gnus use `mail-header-extract' for anything?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen


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* Re: mail-header-extract and the From line
  1997-03-19 13:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 1997-03-24 12:29   ` Robert Bihlmeyer
  1997-03-30  8:42     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Robert Bihlmeyer @ 1997-03-24 12:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
  Cc: ding

Hi,

>>>>> On 19 Mar 1997 14:38:29 +0100
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> said:

 Lars> Robert Bihlmeyer <robbe@orcus.ping.at> writes:
 >> `mail-header-extract' will break (i.e. find no headers) if the
 >> article in question features "From xyz" as it's first line. This
 >> is normally no problem - at least for the backends I use -, as
 >> Gnus correctly rewrites this into a normal header (X-From-Line).

 Lars> Yes -- but does Gnus use `mail-header-extract' for anything?

Probably not. But I do. So what should I do? Fix it, workaround, or
state that leading "From " is a no-no?

	Robbe

-- 
Robert Bihlmeyer	reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!
<robbe@orcus.priv.at>	<http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9426626/sig.html>


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* Re: mail-header-extract and the From line
  1997-03-24 12:29   ` Robert Bihlmeyer
@ 1997-03-30  8:42     ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 1997-03-30  8:42 UTC (permalink / raw)


Robert Bihlmeyer <e9426626@student.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

>  Lars> Yes -- but does Gnus use `mail-header-extract' for anything?
> 
> Probably not. But I do. So what should I do? Fix it, workaround, or
> state that leading "From " is a no-no?

I think the latter.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen


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