Hi Helmut: Helmut wrote:
Hi, my balsa-2.4.8 (GIT) has a very annoying bug. Sometimes it splits incoming messages. Here I have an mbox-file first written by postfix. I doubt the message comes this way from postfix since earlier when I used a different mail client, I have never seen such "splittings"
I have attached one such email.
The file you attached contains two sets of "Status:" and "X-Status" headers. Those were probably not part of the original message--Balsa inserts them when it processes a new message in an mbox-style mailbox.
If I delete them, I get an intact message with just the usual mess of headers, but...it also contains an unprotected From_ line. That is, a line that begins "From ", which, in an mbox-style mailbox, is the marker of the start of a different message. That's why the message is erroneously parsed as consisting of two messages.
All mail delivery agents try to avoid delivering a message containing such lines to that type of mailbox. Balsa uses printed-quotable encoding, and replaces the 'F' with its encoded form ("=46", IIRC). I've also seen the trailing ' ' replaced by "=20".
So it appears that postfix thought it was delivering the message to some other style of mailbox--perhaps MH or Maildir, in which each message is in its own file, and From_ lines have no significance. Then Balsa read the file as an mbox, parsed it as two messages, and inserted the status headers.
Does that seem even remotely plausible?
Best,
Peter
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