On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Philip Guenther wrote:
*selah* <soma(_at_)dorsai(_dot_)org> writes:
Sometimes the messages get transferred ok without eliminating the subject
and author and other times not. I noticed that the messages that get thru
ok have the X-Status: line near or at the bottom of the headers. The ones
that have the subject and from lines missing have the X-Status: line near
the top and the blank line gets inserted under it.
Sorry, but that's a red herring (misleading clue). The X-Status:
header is added by pine to the end of what it thinks the headers is.
If it thinks it ends 'too soon', then the X-Status: header will appear
'too soon' as well.
Have you tried examining new messages in the mailspool using some other
program like less or emacs, _before_ attempting to view them with
pine? Are there any recipes in the /etc/procmailrc file (assuming it
exists)? How about in yours? When a message header is split, is the
first header after the split always a particular one, say, always a
X-Mailer: header? How about the last header before the split (ignoring
the X-Status: header)? You previously mentioned that your mailservers
had been upgraded. Exactly _what_ was upgraded: the OS, the mail
software, the hardware, or all of the above?
It seems that the messages that don't get a line inserted have no
X-Status: line. The ones that do get a line inserted all have the X-Status
line. I looked at a message before it was processed by procmail and it had
no X-Status line and no line was inserted after processing by procmail.