Jacob Haller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>One (and apparently only one) of my subscribers is getting some messages
>>that show up in Eudora with "From ???@??? Wed Aug 05 19:49:33 1998",
>>where the date and time is the time of the download. When she opens
>When Eudora displays "From ???@???", that typically indicates (as you might
>guess) that Eudora couldn't find, or couldn't parse, the "From:" line. Why
>that would happen is a different matter, particularly if other people are
>not having similar problems.
I just checked Eudora's in.mbx, and every message begins with From [log in to unmask]
It looks as if my ISP sends that line. The "From: whoever@whereever" line
is also present further down in the headers, of course.
>This is probably a cop-out, but if I could see the full headers of one of
>the affected messages that might give me more to work with. I suppose it's
>possible that for some reason the post-processor you're using to replace
>the 'From:' lines is occasionally doing it in an invalid way, perhaps not
>using the proper end-of-line indicator or some other nonobvious problem.
The problem is only occuring on the posts that are resent, which the
post-processor does not touch. The post-processor only alters messages
that I have edited, and those go through without a hitch. I can only
get the headers from the subscriber after Eudora has had its way with
the message, and have no way of knowing if Eudora has altered them.
<later>
Something is altering her headers. I don't normally use Eudora, but
I downloaded some messages with Eurdora and looked at the headers. They
appear to be identical to what I see from VSoup, but they are not
identical to what the subscriber sent me. I suspect her filter may be
the culprit. Here's what the subscriber says the header looks like on
the bad messages (I changed the original poster's name in the posts):
==========================================================================
X-From_: [log in to unmask] Tue Aug 18 11:57:14 1998
Received: from listmail.aol.com (listmail.aol.com [152.163.200.33]) by
[More Received lines snipped. rex]
X-Sender: [log in to unmask]
X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Lines: 23
X-Newsreader: VSoup v1.2.9.29Beta [95/NT]
Approved-By: rex <[log in to unmask]>
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:08:08 -0700
Reply-To: RARS & BIRDTECH-L have MERGED! <[log in to unmask]>
Sender: RARS & BIRDTECH-L have MERGED! <[log in to unmask]>
From: Sue Original_poster <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [RARS] BREEDING: Formula - Zupreem Powder
To: [log in to unmask]
In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
At 11:48 PM 8/17/1998 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi List:
[snip]
===========================================================================
The headers from my Eudora look like (different message):
===========================================================================
Received: by mail for rex
(with Cubic Circle's cucipop (v1.21 1997/08/10) Wed Aug 19 16:12:48 1998)
X-From_: [log in to unmask] Wed Aug 19 16:00:36 1998
Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]>
Received: from listmail.aol.com (listmail.aol.com [152.163.200.33])
[Received lines snipped. rex]
X-From_: [log in to unmask] Wed Aug 19 11:08:33 1998
[More received lines snipped. rex]
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214
Lines: 33
X-Newsreader: VSoup v1.2.9.29Beta [95/NT]
Approved-By: rex <[log in to unmask]>
Message-ID: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:59:59 -0700
Reply-To: RARS & BIRDTECH-L have MERGED! <[log in to unmask]>
Sender: RARS & BIRDTECH-L have MERGED! <[log in to unmask]>
From: Sue Original_poster <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [RARS] Health: colloidal silver
To: [log in to unmask]
In a message dated 8/19/98 4:30:01 PM !!!First Boot!!!, [log in to unmask]
[snip] writes:
============================================================================
Something is stripping off the top headers down to the 2nd X-From_: on
her messages. I don't see any significance in that as the From: line and
subject are intact. I need to get the subscriber to turn off all filtering
to see what happens.
>LISTSERV typically follows all relevent RFCs extremely well. I don't
>remember what LISTSERV does if it's given a message with a bad From:
>address to distribute to a mailing list; I _think_ that it bounces it to
>someone in power and doesn't distribute it. Maybe someone who's
The From: line can't be the problem because the messages
(apparently) look fine to everyone else.
>There isn't too much information, but I retain the illusion that I may have
>been helpful in some way. I hope that this is the case.
Yes, you have been, thank you. Kicking the ideas around helps, even if
there is no explicit solution -- yet.
-rex
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