Re: [Pan-users] Threading problems with 0.95

[George sherwood]

On Tue, 2 May 2006 23:48:27 -0500 (CDT)
"Charles Kerr" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> The groupname and message-ids of the posts.
> 
> For privacy, George sent me the Message-Ids offlist, but since the
> thread is here I'll reply here.
> 
> The problem is that OE is posting broken Message-IDs.  The original
> article reads like this:
> 
>   X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
>   X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
>   Message-ID: <address@hidden>
> 
> RFC822 is pretty specific that a domain (the text between
> the @ and the > in the Message-Id header) cannot end in a period.
> Both Pan and KNode are using mime parsers that realize this and
> strip out the offending period, so the Message-Id in the original
> post differs from that in the followup's References: header.
> 
> There is no 'Right Thing' here, since Pan has to choose between
> propagating a noncompliant header or to remove pieces from it.
> IMO the stronger good is to preserve threading -- now if I can
> just find a way to coax the broken Message-Id out of GMime... :)

Charles,
        Thanks.  Is GMime the reason why it changed?  I have been
posting with pan to that group for a long time and have never seen that
behavior.

-- 
George Sherwood 
Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
http://www.sourcemage.org

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