Subject: messed up saving from one mailbox to another

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:46:58 -0700 (PDT)

I still can't reproduce this at will, but yesterday I saw another case of
saving a message from one mailbox to another causing it to be messed up.

I was saving from my suspected_spam mailbox to my INBOX (I had forgotten a
few addresses to add to my filters)..

After saving, in the message list it shows up as:
    2056 Mar 26 Lee Whiteside      (55,177) [sftvschd] SFTV: Upcoming Episode Sc

But a *properly saved* one is:

    2057 Mar 26 Lee Whiteside      (53,051) [sftvschd] SFTV: Upcoming Episode Sc

Note that it's BIGGER than it's supposed to be.

Also, trying to look at the messed up message shows:

Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 23:23:35 -0700 (MST)
From: Lee Whiteside <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: [sftvschd] SFTV: Upcoming Episode Schedules & News (March 26, 2001)

    [ The following text is in the "X-UNKNOWN" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "ISO-8859-1" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

   [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]

That's *all* it shows.  There's no way to see any more of the supposedly 55177
byte message.. (it says it's at the end if I try to page down.)

This is pine 4.33, on
% uname -a
SunOS vax 5.6 sun4u sparc

I realize this probably isn't of much use but hopefully it will ring some
bells somewhere.   I guess for now when I save a message to another mailbox
I always have to check before expunging the original.

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:07:02 -0700 (PDT)

*** Matt Ackeret ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list on Apr 3, 2001:

:) Also, trying to look at the messed up message shows:
:)
:)    [Error: Formatting error: Non-hexadecimal character in QP encoding]

Matt,

I have a patch that may help you figure out what the message says, which
you can get from my web site, or consider using another MUA to read this
message (e.g. mutt does not have problems with this kind of messages).
I think it's in the plan of the pine-team to solve this problem, but of
course you never know when that will happen, just that it will.

-- 
Eduardo
http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/