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   Message 377 of 2,396   
   Wilfred van Velzen to mark lewis   
   Re: Possible FMail bug?   
   17 Dec 14 21:01:30   
   
   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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