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