Subject: Help. Losing mail if first line of body is not blank.

From: "John R. Violette" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:39:13 -0400 (EDT)

I am receiving mail from somebody with elm 109.14 on hpux 9.01, which seems
always to include a header 'Content-Type: Message/rfc822'. If this header
is present and the first line of the body of that mail is NOT BLANK, when
PINE reads that mail it shows up as having attachments 1 and 1.1. When you 
go to view the attachments they are both blank. If I edit the folder and 
delete the header mentioned above or add a blank line in the top of the 
body, it can be seen again.

Is it HP elm or pine at fault?
Any help is appreciated, as we want to roll out PINE and can't unless
it can read this format of mail.

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From jviolett@huhc06 Fri Jul 25 09:51:00 1995
Status: RO
From: John R. Violette <[email-masked]>
Subject: mtest1
To: jviolett@huhc06
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 9:51:52 EDT
X-Hpvue$Revision: 1.8 $
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: Message/rfc822
X-Vue-Mime-Level: 4
X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14]

this is line 1

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From: [email-masked] (Margrete Raaum)
Date: 25 Jul 1995 15:17:39 GMT

In article <Pine.HPP.3.91.950725102703.3742C-200000@huhc06>, [email-masked] ("John R. Violette") writes:
> --2011253396-851401618-806682769=:3742
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII
> Content-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.91.950725103722.3783B@huhc06>
> 

It sound like the same problem that occurred here today. (Unix-Pine 3.91)
The mail included another mail as body, which started with
'Content-Type: Message/rfc822'

Pine aborted immediately when I tried to read this message.
It was probably trying to decode the included mail as well.

A MIME-bug?

Margrete

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:41:24 -0700 (PDT)

It looks like Elm is at fault in this case.  The sample you sent should
have been labeled with a Content-Type of Text/Plain instead of
Message/rfc822.  For the latter to be valid, the body of the message
(after the blank line) would have to start with a new set of headers...

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|/ |_ |  |  Software Engineer, Pine Development Team   (206) 685-4045 (FAX)
University of Washington, Networks & Distributed Computing, JE-20
4545 15th Ave NE, Seattle WA 98105, USA

On Tue, 25 Jul 1995, John R. Violette wrote:

> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:39:13 -0400 (EDT)
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Help. Losing mail if first line of body is not blank.
>