An application written by another group is sending messages which our (embarrassingly old) installation of Silkymail has trouble reading. The last time we had a problem like this it turned out to be an older version of Eudora sending incorrectly formatted mime headers.
Can anyone find anything wrong with the headers below? Every line is terminated by a ctrl-M. It also has a Content-Type of multipart/mixed with Content-Transfer-Encoding: Binary even though it's plain text. But mostly I'm wondering if the boundary headers are correct. I have looked at the MIME RFC's but find them tough slogging. Silkymail displays this particular message as blank, but if you hit "reply" the contents show up quoted. Messages with genuine attachments show up with their content displayed as a text attachment. Somehow Silkymail's sense of the message boundaries doesn't' match the sender's intention. If anyone can find anything wrong with this message I can go to the developers and ask them to fix it. OR, if anyone recognizes anything that recent versions of Silkymail handle better, I can push an upgrade. thanks, Betsy > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>^M > Received: from gsd.harvard.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1])^M > by thoth (Cyrus v2.1.9) with LMTP; Fri, 01 Oct 2004 15:54:17 - 0400^M > X-Sieve: CMU Sieve 2.2^M > Received: from box.harvard.edu (box.harvard.edu [128.103.xx.xx])^M > by gsd.harvard.edu (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i91JsGxX024821 ^M > for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:54:16 -0400 (EDT)^M > Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED])^M > by box.harvard.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.10.2) id i91JsBn15118; ^M > Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:54:11 -0400 (EDT)^M > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>^M > Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary^M > Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="_----------=_ 1096660451137170"^M > MIME-Version: 1.0^M > X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 3.01 (F2.71; A1.48; B2.12; Q2.03)^M > Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:54:11 UT^M > From: "B. Kevin User" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>^M > Bcc:^M > Subject: 10/1: Test message #1 from iCommons Emailbal tool^M > X-Filter-Version: 1.11a (thoth)^M > X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.67-1, clamav-milter version 0.67a^M > ^M > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.^M > ^M > --_----------=_1096660451137170^M > Content-Disposition: inline^M > Content-Length: 89^M > Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary^M > Content-Type: text/plain^M > ^M > Hi Betsy,^M > This is a test message from the iCommons Emailbag tool. ^M > - Kevin 3:53pm 10/1^M > --_----------=_1096660451137170--^M > ^M --- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
