Re: convtoshortdate

From: Kent Landfield <kent_at_hypermail-project.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 15:36:24 -0500 (CDT)
Message-Id: <199806172036.PAA01793_at_landfield.com>

# I guess I thought it was some way my system was reconfigured when
# moving the /usr/local files to a separate hd & symbolically linking
# them from /disk2/usr/local/ to /usr/local.
#
# The old-working-before-i-moved-it executable failed after moving, so i
# have a hard time seeing how a line of code could break.
#
# Here's the /root/demo headers:

Judith,

There is no "From ... Header. For example:

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It appears hypermail is looking for the "From " header and finding none but merrily trying to process the message anyway..

# > Received: from sln.sln.org by sln.fi.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI)
# id KAA19911; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:26:47 -0400
# > Return-Path: <jbush_at_fi.edu>
# > Sender: bush_at_fi.edu
# > Message-ID: <358680BA.1CFB_at_fi.edu>
# > Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 10:27:06 -0400
# > From: "Judith E Bush, New Media Specialist" <jbush_at_fi.edu>
# > Organization: Franklin Institute Science Museum
# > X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01SGoldC-SGI (X11; I; IRIX 6.3 IP32)
# > MIME-Version: 1.0
# > To: library_at_sln.fi.edu
# > CC: bush_at_sln.sln.org
# > Subject: Greetings
# > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
# > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
# >
# > Hello,
# >
#
# However, this crash happens from a variety of mailers. You, too, can get
# an error by sending a test message to library_at_sln.fi.edu. You can see
# the unchanged archive at
# http://www.fi.edu/listarchives/projects/library/
#
# The Franklin Institute Science Museum New Media Specialist
# 222 N. 20th Street 1 (215) 448-1236
# Philadelphia, PA 19103-1194 USA AOL IM judielaine
#
#

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Received on Wed 17 Jun 1998 10:40:34 PM GMT