Re: Missing message ids

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> complaining that the message id is missing. The problem is that extra
> "from" line - it's appeared many times in my archive, on messages from
> different people. I couldn't reproduce the strange header line, so I've
> copied one here, and edited out the sender's information. Here are the
> different formats of this header line that I've seen:
>
> >From someone_at_someplace Fri Apr 16 04:52:35 1999
> >From someone_at_someplaceFri Apr 16 04:52:35 1999 (no space b/w name,date)
> >From someone_at_someplace Sun Mar 14 17:15:06 -0500 1999 (TZ in date)

Is the From on these lines right at the beginning of the line or has got a '>' before it? It did when it got here, but often mail systems protect any leading '^From ' that they see in this way.

If the 'From ' _is_ at the start of the line then I'm not sure how hypermail could distinguish this from a 'real' header (and therefore the start of a new message). My feeling is that your mail system needs to be setup to escape '^From ' within the body of messages.

Paul Received on Thu 13 May 1999 11:32:35 AM GMT