Hi,

On 2014-12-16 19:46:41, mark lewis wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
  about: "Possible FMail bug?":

 WvV>> As I said FMail only looks for kludges at the begining of lines.
 WvV>> So I don't think that what you saw had anything to do with FMail.
 WvV>> I might try to test it myself though. It should be easy to create
 WvV>> some packet files for testing, that have kludges in the middle of
 WvV>> a line...

 ml> they weren't in the middle of the line... they were quoted raw from another
 ml> message without any quote characters...

That wasn't clear from previous messages about this...

 ml> when i viewed the message, they were not in the body and they weren't
 ml> hidden... they were simply gone... i had to go back to the raw PKT to
 ml> find them... if i hadn't already been expecting them, i'd have never
 ml> known they were missing...

I looked a bit at the fmail code that processes seen-by and path lines. It
first looks for an origin line. If it finds that, it only processes seen-by
and path lines after that. If there is no origin line, the whole message is
scanned for seen-by and path lines. So if there also was an origin line in
the raw "quote", the "bogus" seen-by and path lines
would be processed as if they were regular ones.

This could explain the behaviour you noticed. Because seen-by and path
lines are removed from the original incomming message, and recreated at the
end of the message when fmail writes it to the message base or exports it
to pkt files for links, after adding the necessary nodes to them.

 ml> i guess don't worry about it for now... i don't know if i'll have time
 ml> to find the original PKT to post the raw HEX from... there are 800+
 ml> PKTs over here for the last 30 days for this point alone... another
 ml> system running on this machine has 900+ PKTs for the same period...
 ml> that's not even counting the d'Bridge point running or the other bbs
 ml> either... i'm not even sure roughly what day it arrived so it may very
 ml> well be gone already... the only thing i am sure of is that it
 ml> happened on this machine and not one of the other three that are
 ml> running their own bbses...

I think I already have a pretty good idea what happend. And I'm not sure
there is anything to improve or fix in FMail. It did what it is supposed to
do with the data that was offered to it. "Gigo" applies here! ;)

Bye, Wilfred.


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