Silkymail problem - maybe bad IMAP headers?

Elizabeth Schwartz betsy.schwartz at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 09:40:18 EDT 2004


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: <nobody at box.harvard.edu>^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 <betsys at gsd.harvard.edu>; Fri, 1 Oct 2004 15:54:16 -0400 
(EDT)^M
> Received: (from nobody at localhost)^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: <200410011954.i91JsBn15118 at box.harvard.edu>^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" <kuser at gsd.harvard.edu>^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
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