Re: [Pan-users] X-Pan-Internal headers

[Charles Kerr]

>>On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:47:43AM +0100, Gollum wrote:
>> When posting with Pan, it adds one or two special headers:
>>>  X-Pan-Internal-Attribution (when replying)
>>>  X-Pan-Internal-Post-Server (always)
>> I've found no option to get rid of them.  I suggest removing them (or
>> making them optional), because it's nobody's business what I call the
>> server internally in Pan or what my default attribution is.

> Charles wrote:
>> The former is used in the message correctness checks for obscure 
>> reasons[1], and the latter is used to know which server to send the
>> post to.  These headers are stripped out as the message is sent to
>> the news server, so the rest of the world doesn't see them.
 
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 05:42:21PM -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> I find by experiment that the headers still show up when I read the 
> article back from the newsgroup, using pan 0.13.2.91, thus:
<snip>

This is because of a design mistake in 0.13.X that checks the folders
(including pan.sendlater and pan.sent) for copies of articles before
downloading them from the news server.  So you're reading your article
from pan.sent, rather than from the news server -- ie, your local one
rather than the one the rest of the world sees.

This bug causes some other problems (including as the inability
to mark your own articles as read sometimes) and will be
fixed Real Soon Now.

More information at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89435

cheers,
Charles