Re: tlug: Strange headers from TLUG server?

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> I've narrowed down the problem I have with Pine not seeing some of my mail
> headers.  What do you think of this:
> 
> If I send myself a test message to both my geocities and TLUG accounts,
> Pine has trouble with the headers on the one that went through TLUG, but
> not the one that went through Geocities.  On the message that went through
> TLUG, it will display the entire header in the message, and if I reply, it
> fails to pick up the subject from the header, instead using a default
> subject of Re: your mail.
> 
> With the message I send to my Geocities account, however, everything is
> fine, it picks up the subject and does not display the header along with
> the message.  Has anyone else experienced this?  
> 
> Is there any possibility that something on the TLUG server is crunching
> my mail, rather than something on my machine?  If it were my machine, I
> would expect it to hose all of my mail, rather than only stuff sent to my
> TLUG account, but ... ?
> 
> My .fetchmailrc contains these lines:
> 
> poll mail.geocities.com proto POP3 user jpmag pass xxxxxxxx
> poll tlug.pht.co.jp proto POP3 user jonathan pass xxxxxxxx
> 
> My local userid on this machine is jonathan
> 
> TIA for any like that you can shed on this vexing problem.
> 
> Jonathan

Does the problem go away if you take out your .fetchmailrc?  the tlug
server is running the same sendmail as ume.pht.co.jp, and my mail works :)

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