Subject: [ Empty message possibly malformed. Use "H" to see raw text. ]

From: Matt Ackeret <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:09:17 -0800 (PST)

So I sent myself a blank message with only an attachment (to easily move
a file from one machine to another), and viewing that message, I see:

    [ Empty message possibly malformed. Use "H" to see raw text. ]

    [ Part 2, Text/PLAIN (Name: "Software Update_300.sample.txt")  65 ]
    [ lines. ]
    [ Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part. ]

This is with pine 4.44.

How do I figure out what's invalid about it?

the attachment index is:
   1    0 lines   Text/PLAIN
   2   ~3 KB      Text/PLAIN (Name: "Software Update_300.sample.txt")

Seems like pine shouldn't be sending invalid messages..

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From: Eduardo Chappa <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:24:21 -0800 (PST)

*** Matt Ackeret ([email-masked]) wrote in the pine-info list today:

:) So I sent myself a blank message with only an attachment (to easily move
:) a file from one machine to another), and viewing that message, I see:
:)
:)     [ Empty message possibly malformed. Use "H" to see raw text. ]

The only missing statement in the message that you received is that the
message that you see (from Pine)  is just a "Warning", not an "Error". The
message just means that the body of the message was empty (for purposes of
this explanation, the body will be the part where you write something for
the recipient).

Normally when you send a message, you write something in the body of the
message. Since Pine did not detect any text there, it is telling you that
there is a chance that there may be some message for you, but Pine can't
find it, and the way to see if there's any text (for the recipient) at
all, is by pressing "H". If you happen to find any message for you in an
empty message (using the "H" command), then the message was formatted
incorrectly, and you should tell this to the sender, so that they find a
solution to their problem.

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

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From: Big brother <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 12:25:04 -0800

I need a UNIX server with ircii access.

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From: Shane Castle <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:12:15 -0700 (MST)

>How do I figure out what's invalid about it?

Why do you think there's anything invalid about it?

>Seems like pine shouldn't be sending invalid messages..

And as far as I can tell it isn't.  You sent an empty message and Pine
told you it was empty.  It never said it was invalid.

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