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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#27133: no subject)
From:       Marc Mutz <mutz () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-08-11 8:35:51
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On Saturday 11 August 2001 11:57, Marc Mutz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Somehow I knew this was KMail's bug, but when I posted it some time
> ago, it was said that it's probably somone's broken mailer.
>
> There were at least three bug reports saying that KMail apparently
> inserts a blank line after long header fields.
>
> I get such mails regularly from exactly two persons (one of which is
> tackat!).
>
> They are always broken after the "X-Status: N" header and continue
> somewhere inside a Received: header.
>

OK, please don't flame me. I realized these are added by KMail.

> Checking the X-Mailer: headers of those messages, I see that they are
> _not_ KMail's but (in tackat's case) netscape and (in the other case)
> Gnus.
>

Tackat's case is probably different, since his blank line is inserted 
cleanly between two headers. The other one (jgoerzen@complete.org over 
on gnupg-users) has his inserted right in the middle of a Received: (or 
similar) header, just like the bug reporter shows.

> The common thing here seems to be KMail, but it can also be some
> broken MTA (version, widely used).

Funny thing is that some people can respond to these broken messages, 
since I see their replies on the mailing-lists.

- -- 
Marc Mutz <Marc@Mutz.com>
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