Subject: Re: Bug in pine 3.96 - MIME error messages

From: [email-masked] (Orjan Johansen)
Date: 2 Mar 1997 19:12:47 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Hynek Med  <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>When I get an error message from a mailer daemon which sends it in MIME,
>this message is sometimes impossible to read in pine. Try to send a test
>mail to [email-masked] (or something like that - [email-masked], for
>example), and you'll see that you don't see the body in pine.. I'm trying
>to include such a message as an attachement to this post, if you export
>this attachement to a file and then run pine -f on that file, you'll
>hopefully get what I get here..

Yes. Metamail (another MIME program) complains, but still shows the message.

Apparently it is due to a slight error in the main Content-Type
field of the error message.

Content-Type: multipart/mixed;;
                Boundary="===========================_ _= 9470520(272)"

There should only be one semicolon at the end of the first line. After fixing 
this both metamail and pine worked fine.

Greetings,
Ørjan.

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From: Hynek Med <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:40:23 +0100

I reported this bug once before, but nobody replied. :-(

Hynek

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Hynek Med, [email-masked]
From [email-masked] Sun Mar  2 19:30:34 1997
To: [email-masked]
From: Mail Administrator<[email-masked]>
Reply-To: Mail Administrator<[email-masked]>
Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 19:24:21 +0100
Status: RO

--===========================_ _= 9470520(272)
Content-Type: text/plain

This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

Your message was not delivered because the destination computer was
not found.  Carefully check that it was spelled correctly and try
sending it again if there were any mistakes.

It is also possible that a network problem caused this situation,
so if you are sure the address is correct you might want to try to
send it again.  If the problem continues, contact your friendly
system administrator.

     Host eyi.cz not found

The following recipients did not receive this message:

     <[email-masked]>

Please reply to [email-masked]
if you feel this message to be in error.

--===========================_ _= 9470520(272)
Content-Type: message/rfc822
Content-Disposition: attachment

Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 19:30:14 +0100
From: Hynek Med <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: test

test
--===========================_ _= 9470520(272)--

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From: Hynek Med <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:14:49 +0100

On 2 Mar 1997, Orjan Johansen wrote:

> There should only be one semicolon at the end of the first line. After
> fixing this both metamail and pine worked fine. 

Well, OK, now we know that the header is wrong, but many MTAs send it - as
a listowner I have several of these messages unreadable to pine from time
to time.. I think it pine should make a warning, but display the message
anyway. Or ignore the MIME and display it as if it wasn't in MIME..

Hynek