On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Gary Funck <gary(_at_)intrepid(_dot_)com> wrote:
Occasionally I receive messages from a list where the original was gated
through a news server. Some (but not all) of these message arrive with
damaged headers such that most of the header lines are taken as body text.
I'd like to fix up these message so that they have correct headers.
You might try seeing if the "digest split" option on formail will help. ...
formail +1 -ds < msg.001 > msg.fixed
Then, take a look at msg.fixed to see if that's what you expect to see in a
repaired message.
Although it altered me to features (the -d and -s option) of
procmail/formail I was unaware of it doesn't solve the problem. Using the
+1 option resulted in a nothing being written to the output.
Here's a fragment of the latest of these damaged messages. (Only change is
to alter the address of the original author.)
From trevor(_at_)suneidesis(_dot_)com Wed Dec 26 10:54:35 2001 +0000
Return-Path: <bounce-tools-forum-41233(_at_)news(_dot_)palmos(_dot_)com>
Received: from punt-11.mail.demon.net (punt-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.34])
by suneidesis.demon.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA14452
for <trevor(_dot_)jenkins(_at_)suneidesis(_dot_)com>; Wed, 26 Dec 2001
10:54:33 GMT
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 10:54:33 GMT
From: bounce-tools-forum-41233(_at_)news(_dot_)palmos(_dot_)com
Message-Id:
<200112261054(_dot_)KAA14452(_at_)suneidesis(_dot_)demon(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Received: from punt-1.mail.demon.net by mailstore
for trevor(_dot_)jenkins(_at_)suneidesis(_dot_)com id
1009338895:10:10390:2;
Wed, 26 Dec 2001 03:54:55 GMT
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:
From: "original author " <someone(_at_)suneidesis(_dot_)com>
Newsgroups: tools-forum
Subject: Re: source code for Palm OS 4.0 Note Pad app' available?
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 00:37:39 -0500
and so on through the remaining headers and body text. I tried increasing
the minfields counter, using the -z option, and dropping the +1 but the
re-processed message is identical to the original.
Regards, Trevor
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