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[Ron Jarrell]

At 11:54 PM 6/1/02 -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
>If this works as expected, all the headers below the subject line should
>end up in the mail body.
>
>I've been tracking this bug for a while, apparently mailman's header parsing
>chokes  when you  have a  header  that contains  more than  80 (maybe  100?)
>characters in a row without a space.

Refer to the notes that I posted off and on over the last month, including 
a sample header that triggers the effect.  I finally caught a header 
*before* it happened by being cc'd on a note that coincidentally triggered 
it, and posted it, and Barry confirmed he could replicate it.

What little time I've had to look at it has left me convinced it's email 
that's doing it...

Unfortunately, while I would normally have been trying to fix this, rather 
than just report it and wash my hands of it, I've recently been rendered 
functionally unable to do much of anything at work.  Thanks to excellent 
and far sighted scheduling on the part of the upper brass, my #1 priority 
is to pack and move my office into storage.  In about a month the bid on 
our new office space should go out, and the most forgiving estimates show 
us getting a place to sit down again and set up shop possibly as early as 
christmas...