Volker Kuhlmann <list0570(_at_)paradise(_dot_)net(_dot_)nz> wrote:
[dman wrote:]
It has been reported that the bug with the lopped-off F happens
under some platforms and compiles when a filtering recipe runs.
(I.e., the f-flag for procmail.)
Nasty bug. I observed it last night with formail
-ito:fdxxx(_at_)xxxx(_dot_)xxx
adding a "to: dxxx(_at_)xxxx(_dot_)xxx" header, whereas
formail -ito:\ fdxxx(_at_)xxxx(_dot_)xxx worked as expected. I can't however
now
reproduce it, nor work out the exact circumstances. SuSE
Linux 9.2 with procmail as supplied by distro. I'm certain though I
wasn't just seeing fairies, the first f from the email address was
missing.
Hmm.
Well, I'm not saying you didn't see this, but it doesn't sound to
me to be related to the known bug. It's not, so far as I know, that
the F _qua_ 'F' has anything to do with it. It is that procmail
makes some status check (search the archives for details, as I only
remember this with some vagueness); and the way the check works is,
procmail looks to see if it should write a From line by writing an
F, then pausing for some algorithm, then writing the rest of the
line. But only on From_ lines, not on header things with F.
However, it's possible that it's related to formail, yeah.
I don't remember right now more details of what I've read here
about it in the past. I've never seen the bug myself, fwiw.
Dallman
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